Bioinspiration in light harvesting and catalysis

AH Proppe, YC Li, A Aspuru-Guzik… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Capturing and converting solar energy into fuels and feedstocks is a global challenge that
spans numerous disciplines and fields of research. Billions of years of evolution have …

Organic light detectors: photodiodes and phototransistors

KJ Baeg, M Binda, D Natali, M Caironi… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
While organic electronics is mostly dominated by light‐emitting diodes, photovoltaic cells
and transistors, optoelectronics properties peculiar to organic semiconductors make them …

Organic ternary solar cells: a review

T Ameri, P Khoram, J Min, CJ Brabec - Advanced Materials, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, researchers have paid a great deal of attention to the research and development
of organic solar cells, leading to a breakthrough of over 10% power conversion efficiency …

8.4% efficient fullerene-free organic solar cells exploiting long-range exciton energy transfer

K Cnops, BP Rand, D Cheyns, B Verreet… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
In order to increase the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells, their absorption
spectrum should be broadened while maintaining efficient exciton harvesting. This requires …

Efficient singlet fission discovered in a disordered acene film

ST Roberts, RE McAnally, JN Mastron… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Singlet exciton fission is a process that occurs in select organic semiconductors and entails
the splitting of a singlet excited state into two lower triplet excitons located on adjacent …

Organic solar cells: understanding the role of Förster resonance energy transfer

K Feron, WJ Belcher, CJ Fell, PC Dastoor - International journal of …, 2012 - mdpi.com
Organic solar cells have the potential to become a low-cost sustainable energy source.
Understanding the photoconversion mechanism is key to the design of efficient organic solar …

Organic planar heterojunctions: from models for interfaces in bulk heterojunctions to high‐performance solar cells

K Nakano, K Tajima - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent progress regarding planar heterojunctions (PHJs) is reviewed, with respect to the
fundamental understanding of the photophysical processes at the donor/acceptor interfaces …

Suppression of geminate charge recombination in organic photovoltaic devices with a cascaded energy heterojunction

C Groves - Energy & Environmental Science, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The effect of cascaded energy heterojunctions on geminate charge recombination in organic
photovoltaic devices is examined using a kinetic Monte Carlo model. The structure of the …

Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Sintered CdSexTe1–x Nanocrystal Solar Cells

BI MacDonald, A Martucci, S Rubanov, SE Watkins… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Alloying is a versatile tool for engineering the optical and electronic properties of materials.
Here, we explore the use of CdTe and CdSe nanocrystals in developing sintered CdSe x …

Challenges and opportunities in the development of conjugated block copolymers for photovoltaics

Y Lee, ED Gomez - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
Fully conjugated block copolymers that covalently link donor and acceptor units within the
molecular structure have the potential to simultaneously control the mesoscale assembly …