Polymer semiconductors: synthesis, processing, and applications

L Ding, ZD Yu, XY Wang, ZF Yao, Y Lu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymer semiconductors composed of a carbon-based π conjugated backbone have been
studied for several decades as active layers of multifarious organic electronic devices. They …

Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

Binary organic solar cells with 19.2% efficiency enabled by solid additive

J Wang, Y Wang, P Bi, Z Chen, J Qiao, J Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology optimization is critical for achieving high efficiency and stable bulk‐
heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, the use of 3, 5 …

Compromising charge generation and recombination of organic photovoltaics with mixed diluent strategy for certified 19.4% efficiency

T Chen, S Li, Y Li, Z Chen, H Wu, Y Lin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary blend is demonstrated as an effective strategy to promote the device
performance of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) due to the dilution effect. While the …

Fibrillization of non‐fullerene acceptors enables 19% efficiency pseudo‐bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

D Li, N Deng, Y Fu, C Guo, B Zhou, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The structural order and aggregation of non‐fullerene acceptors (NFA) are critical toward
light absorption, phase separation, and charge transport properties of their photovoltaic …

A rare case of brominated small molecule acceptors for high-efficiency organic solar cells

H Liang, X Bi, H Chen, T He, Y Lin, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Given that bromine possesses similar properties but extra merits of easily synthesizing and
polarizing comparing to homomorphic fluorine and chlorine, it is quite surprising very rare …

Advantages, challenges and molecular design of different material types used in organic solar cells

J Yi, G Zhang, H Yu, H Yan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10
years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic electron–acceptor …

18.2%-efficient ternary all-polymer organic solar cells with improved stability enabled by a chlorinated guest polymer acceptor

R Sun, T Wang, Q Fan, M Wu, X Yang, X Wu, Y Yu… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Although the polymer/polymer blend systems still lag far behind small-molecule-acceptor-
based counterparts in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), the ternary blending strategy …

Recent progress of Y6‐derived asymmetric fused ring electron acceptors

Y Zhang, Y Ji, Y Zhang, W Zhang, H Bai… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Symmetric conjugated molecules can be broken through suitable synthetic strategies to
construct novel asymmetric molecules, which can largely broaden the material library. In the …

Y‐type non‐fullerene acceptors with outer branched side chains and inner cyclohexane side chains for 19.36% efficiency polymer solar cells

M Deng, X Xu, Y Duan, L Yu, R Li… - Advanced materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Raising the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy level of Y‐type non‐
fullerene acceptors can increase the open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and thus the photovoltaic …