Achieving 16% efficiency for polythiophene organic solar cells with a cyano‐substituted polythiophene

X Yuan, Y Zhao, Y Zhang, D Xie… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polythiophenes (PTs) are promising electron donors in organic solar cells (OSCs) due to
their simple structures and excellent synthetic scalability. However, the device performance …

Polythiophenes for organic solar cells with efficiency surpassing 17%

X Yuan, Y Zhao, D Xie, L Pan, X Liu, C Duan, F Huang… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Polythiophenes (PTs) are promising electron donors for organic solar cells (OSCs) due to
their low production cost. However, the device performance of PTs in OSCs is rather poor …

Sequentially fluorinated polythiophene donors for high‐performance organic solar cells with 16.4% efficiency

D Jeong, GU Kim, D Lee, S Seo, S Lee… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polythiophenes (PTs) have attracted considerable interest for application in organic solar
cells (OSCs) owing to their simple molecular structures and low‐cost synthesis. However …

Backbone fluorination of polythiophenes improves device performance of non-fullerene polymer solar cells

X Jia, G Liu, S Chen, Z Li, Z Wang, Q Yin… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polythiophenes (PTs) are promising donor materials for the industrialization of polymer solar
cells (PSCs) due to the merits of easy synthesis, low cost, and large-scale producibility. The …

Simple polythiophene solar cells approaching 10% efficiency via carbon chain length modulation of poly (3-alkylthiophene)

Y Liu, K Xian, R Gui, K Zhou, J Liu, M Gao… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Poly (3-alkylthiophene) s are the most extensively studied polymeric materials in organic
and hybrid solar cells due to the unique advantages of extremely low cost in material …

A monothiophene unit incorporating both fluoro and ester substitution enabling high-performance donor polymers for non-fullerene solar cells with 16.4% efficiency

H Sun, T Liu, J Yu, TK Lau, G Zhang, Y Zhang… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Thiophene and its derivatives have been extensively used in organic electronics, particularly
in the field of polymer solar cells (PSCs). Significant research efforts have been dedicated to …

Fluorination strategy enables greatly improved performance for organic solar cells based on polythiophene derivatives

C Yang, S Zhang, J Ren, P Bi, X Yuan, J Hou - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) have reached 18%
recently, which have already met the demand of practical application. However, these …

Surpassing 13% efficiency for polythiophene organic solar cells processed from nonhalogenated solvent

J Xiao, X Jia, C Duan, F Huang, HL Yip… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Benefiting from low cost and simple synthesis, polythiophene (PT) derivatives are one of the
most popular donor materials for organic solar cells (OSCs). However, polythiophene‐based …

Nonfullerene acceptors for P3HT-based organic solar cells

S Chatterjee, S Jinnai, Y Ie - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Progressive advancement of remarkably high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of
organic solar cells (OSCs) largely depends on the development of non-fullerene acceptors …

Optimization requirements of efficient polythiophene: nonfullerene organic solar cells

Z Liang, M Li, Q Wang, Y Qin, SJ Stuard, Z Peng… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Polythiophene (PT) and its derivatives have attracted long-standing attention in the organic
photovoltaic community for their low cost and high scalability of synthesis. However, due to …