The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors

J Wang, P Xue, Y Jiang, Y Huo, X Zhan - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs) have a donor–acceptor–donor structure comprising
an electron-donating fused-ring core, electron-accepting end groups, π-bridges and side …

Organoboron molecules and polymers for organic solar cell applications

J Miao, Y Wang, J Liu, L Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) are emerging as a new photovoltaic technology with the great
advantages of low cost, light-weight, flexibility and semi-transparency. They are promising …

Binary organic solar cells breaking 19% via manipulating the vertical component distribution

Y Wei, Z Chen, G Lu, N Yu, C Li, J Gao, X Gu… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The variation of the vertical component distribution can significantly influence the
photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells (OSCs), mainly due to its impact on exciton …

Single‐junction organic photovoltaic cell with 19% efficiency

Y Cui, Y Xu, H Yao, P Bi, L Hong, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Improving power conversion efficiency (PCE) is important for broadening the applications of
organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. Here, a maximum PCE of 19.0%(certified value of 18.7%) …

Reduced non-radiative charge recombination enables organic photovoltaic cell approaching 19% efficiency

P Bi, S Zhang, Z Chen, Y Xu, Y Cui, T Zhang, J Ren… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Reducing non-radiative charge recombination is of critical importance to achieving high-
performance organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. The correlation between the exciton …

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 …

A well‐mixed phase formed by two compatible non‐fullerene acceptors enables ternary organic solar cells with efficiency over 18.6%

Y Cai, Y Li, R Wang, H Wu, Z Chen, J Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary strategy, introducing a third component into a binary blend, opens a simple and
promising avenue to improve the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells …

Structurally complementary star‐shaped unfused ring electron acceptors with simultaneously enhanced device parameters for ternary organic solar cells

XM Huang, N Chen, DN Ye, AG Zhong, H Liu, Z Li… - Solar Rrl, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ternary strategy has attracted extensive attention for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells
(BHJ OSCs) owing to their potentially improved light harvesting, cascaded energy levels …

Single‐junction organic photovoltaic cells with approaching 18% efficiency

Y Cui, H Yao, J Zhang, K Xian, T Zhang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Optimizing the molecular structures of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials is one of the
most effective methods to boost power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). For an excellent …

Small-molecular donor guest achieves rigid 18.5% and flexible 15.9% efficiency organic photovoltaic via fine-tuning microstructure morphology

Z Chen, W Song, K Yu, J Ge, J Zhang, L Xie, R Peng… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Incorporation of crystalline small molecule into host binary systems to finely tune film
morphology is demonstrated to be an effective method to improve photovoltaic performance …