Unveiling structure-performance relationships from multi-scales in non-fullerene organic photovoltaics

S Li, L Zhan, N Yao, X Xia, Z Chen, W Yang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Unveiling the correlations among molecular structures, morphological characteristics,
macroscopic properties and device performances is crucial for developing better …

Designs and understanding of small molecule-based non-fullerene acceptors for realizing commercially viable organic photovoltaics

M Kim, SU Ryu, SA Park, YJ Pu, T Park - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have emerged as a promising next-generation technology
with great potential for portable, wearable, and transparent photovoltaic applications. Over …

Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells

C Li, J Zhou, J Song, J Xu, H Zhang, X Zhang, J Guo… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular design of non-fullerene acceptors is of vital importance for high-efficiency organic
solar cells. The branched alkyl chain modification is often regarded as a counter-intuitive …

Electronic Configuration Tuning of Centrally Extended Non‐Fullerene Acceptors Enabling Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency Approaching 19%

T Duan, W Feng, Y Li, Z Li, Z Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the molecular optimizations of non‐fullerene acceptors (NFAs), extending the central core
can tune the energy levels, reduce nonradiative energy loss, enhance the intramolecular …

Aggregation of non-fullerene acceptors in organic solar cells

D Li, X Zhang, D Liu, T Wang - Journal of materials chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) employing non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have drawn
significant research attention in recent years. Molecular stacking and aggregation of electron …

Unraveling the influence of non-fullerene acceptor molecular packing on photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells

L Ye, K Weng, J Xu, X Du, S Chandrabose… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In non-fullerene organic solar cells, the long-range structure ordering induced by end-group
π–π stacking of fused-ring non-fullerene acceptors is considered as the critical factor in …

Recent progress on non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics

H Sun, F Chen, ZK Chen - Materials Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have attracted great interest as potential substitutes for
fullerenes and their derivatives. With the advent of new building blocks and design strategy …

Asymmetric molecular engineering in recent nonfullerene acceptors for efficient organic solar cells

J Song, Z Bo - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs), which usually possess symmetric skeletons, have drawn
great attention in recent years due to their pronounced advantages over the fullerene …

Alkoxy substitution on asymmetric conjugated molecule enabling over 18% efficiency in ternary organic solar cells by reducing nonradiative voltage loss

L Xie, A Lan, Q Gu, S Yang, W Song, J Ge… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A ternary strategy is considered to be an efficient and simple way to further enhance the
performance of organic photovoltaics (OPVs). However, the “structure–performance” …

Crystal structures in state-of-the-art non-fullerene electron acceptors

L Ma, S Zhang, J Hou - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Great progress in the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic photovoltaics (OPVs)
has been made by employing non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). In order to further promote …