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 …

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 …

Organic solar cells using oligomer acceptors for improved stability and efficiency

Y Liang, D Zhang, Z Wu, T Jia, L Lüer, H Tang, L Hong… - Nature energy, 2022 - nature.com
The power conversion efficiencies of organic solar cells (OSCs) have reached over 19%.
However, the combination of high efficiency and long-term stability is still a major …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science)

Y Liu, B Li, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
During past several years, the photovoltaic performances of organic solar cells (OSCs) have
achieved rapid progress with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 18 …

Improved photovoltaic performance and robustness of all-polymer solar cells enabled by a polyfullerene guest acceptor

H Yu, Y Wang, X Zou, J Yin, X Shi, Y Li, H Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fullerene acceptors typically possess excellent electron-transporting properties and can
work as guest components in ternary organic solar cells to enhance the charge extraction …

A Vinylene‐Linker‐Based Polymer Acceptor Featuring a Coplanar and Rigid Molecular Conformation Enables High‐Performance All‐Polymer Solar Cells with Over …

H Yu, Y Wang, HK Kim, X Wu, Y Li, Z Yao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
State‐of‐art Y‐series polymer acceptors are typically based on a mono‐thiophene linker,
which can cause some twisted molecular conformations and thus limit the performance of all …

Over 17.4% Efficiency of Layer‐by‐Layer All‐Polymer Solar Cells by Improving Exciton Utilization in Acceptor Layer

W Xu, M Zhang, X Ma, X Zhu, SY Jeong… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Layer‐by‐layer all‐polymer solar cells (LbL all‐PSCs) are prepared with PM6 and PY‐IT by
using sequential spin coating method. The exciton dissociation efficiency in acceptor layer …

Polymerized small molecular acceptor based all-polymer solar cells with an efficiency of 16.16% via tuning polymer blend morphology by molecular design

J Du, K Hu, J Zhang, L Meng, J Yue… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) based on polymerized small molecular acceptors (PSMAs)
have made significant progress recently. Here, we synthesize two A-DA'DA small molecule …

Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors

R Sun, W Wang, H Yu, Z Chen, XX Xia, H Shen, J Guo… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
The field of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) has experienced rapid development during the
past few years, mainly driven by the design of efficient polymer acceptors (PA s). However …

Asymmetric side-chain substitution enables a 3D network acceptor with hydrogen bond assisted crystal packing and enhanced electronic coupling for efficient organic …

Z Luo, Y Gao, H Lai, Y Li, Z Wu, Z Chen… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Side chain modification on small-molecule acceptors (SMAs) is an effective method to
realize high device efficiencies for organic solar cells (OSCs), among which the asymmetric …