Recent advances in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells

L Lu, T Zheng, Q Wu, AM Schneider, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
It is clear that the current energy regimen, which relies on nonrenewable and polluting
energy sources, has unsustainable consequences for societal, economical, geopolitical, and …

Pathways towards Boosting Solar‐Driven Hydrogen Evolution of Conjugated Polymers

Y Liu, B Li, Z Xiang - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Photocatalytic H2 evolution under solar illumination has been considered to be a promising
technology for green energy resources. Developing highly efficient photocatalysts for …

Unique assembly of giant star-shaped trimer enables non-halogen solvent-fabricated, thermal stable, and efficient organic solar cells

C Wang, X Ma, Y Shen, D Deng, H Zhang, T Wang… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Herein, we report a star-shaped giant trimer (G-Trimer) to fabricate organic solar cells by o-
xylene with over 19% efficiency, long-term stability, and accessible up-scaling property, a …

Charge separation from an intra-moiety intermediate state in the high-performance PM6: Y6 organic photovoltaic blend

R Wang, C Zhang, Q Li, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices with nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) exhibit
efficient hole transfer with small interfacial energy offset, which results in power conversion …

Understanding low bandgap polymer PTB7 and optimizing polymer solar cells based on it

L Lu, L Yu - Advanced Materials, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Solution processed single junction polymer solar cells (PSCs) have been developed from
less than 1% power conversion efficiency (PCE) to beyond 9% PCE in the last decade. The …

Conjugated donor-acceptor polymer photocatalysts with electron-output “tentacles” for efficient hydrogen evolution

ZA Lan, W Ren, X Chen, Y Zhang, X Wang - Applied Catalysis B …, 2019 - Elsevier
The tunable structures and versatile properties for conjugated polymers (CPs) make them
viable as a molecular platform for photocatalytic water splitting. Normally, structure design of …

Fluorine substituents reduce charge recombination and drive structure and morphology development in polymer solar cells

AC Stuart, JR Tumbleston, H Zhou, W Li… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Three structurally identical polymers, except for the number of fluorine substitutions (0, 1, or
2) on the repeat unit (BnDT-DTBT), are investigated in detail, to further understand the …

Controlling conformations of conjugated polymers and small molecules: The role of nonbonding interactions

NE Jackson, BM Savoie, KL Kohlstedt… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The chemical variety present in the organic electronics literature has motivated us to
investigate potential nonbonding interactions often incorporated into conformational …

Toward predicting efficiency of organic solar cells via machine learning and improved descriptors

H Sahu, W Rao, A Troisi, H Ma - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To design efficient materials for organic photovoltaics (OPVs), it is essential to identify the
largest number of parameters that control their properties and build a model using these …

Linker-dependent singlet fission in tetracene dimers

NV Korovina, J Joy, X Feng… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Separation of triplet excitons produced by singlet fission is crucial for efficient application of
singlet fission materials. While earlier works explored the first step of singlet fission, the …