Control of properties through hydrogen bonding interactions in conjugated polymers

Q Wan, BC Thompson - Advanced Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular design is crucial for endowing conjugated polymers (CPs) with unique properties
and enhanced electronic performance. Introducing Hydrogen‐bonding (H‐bonding) into …

The recent progress of wide bandgap donor polymers towards non-fullerene organic solar cells

X Xu, G Zhang, Y Li, Q Peng - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
This review summarized the recent progress of highly efficient wide bandgap (WBG) donor
polymers and their applications in non-fullerene polymer solar cells (NF-PSCs). A brief …

Sequential deposition of organic films with eco‐compatible solvents improves performance and enables over 12%‐efficiency nonfullerene solar cells

L Ye, Y Xiong, Z Chen, Q Zhang, Z Fei… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Casting of a donor: acceptor bulk‐heterojunction structure from a single ink has been the
predominant fabrication method of organic photovoltaics (OPVs). Despite the success of …

Revealing the effects of molecular packing on the performances of polymer solar cells based on A–D–C–D–A type non-fullerene acceptors

S Li, L Zhan, W Zhao, S Zhang, B Ali, Z Fu… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Although the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of polymer solar cells (PSCs) based on
non-fullerene acceptors have been increasing rapidly over the last couple of years, little is …

Enhancing indacenodithiophene acceptor crystallinity via substituent manipulation increases organic solar cell efficiency

TJ Aldrich, SM Swick, FS Melkonyan, TJ Marks - Chemistry of Materials, 2017 - osti.gov
The post-fullerene indacenodithiophene acceptor ITIC is a highly effective n-type component
of high-performance bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) polymer solar cells (PSCs) for reasons that …

Conjugated polymers for photon-to-electron and photon-to-fuel conversions

ZP Yu, K Yan, W Ullah, H Chen… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Solar energy conversion has nowadays attracted research interests of the community,
wherein conjugated polymers (CPs) become a class of workhorses on photon-to-electron …

Organic and organometallic fluorinated materials for electronics and optoelectronics: A survey on recent research

R Ragni, A Punzi, F Babudri… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated organic polymers, small molecules, and transition metal organometallic
complexes are used as active semiconducting materials in electronic and optoelectronic …

Enhancing the photovoltaic performance of ladder-type dithienocyclopentacarbazole-based nonfullerene acceptors through fluorination and side-chain engineering

Q Tu, Y Ma, X Zhou, W Ma, Q Zheng - Chemistry of Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
Besides an aromatic polycyclic core with extended π-conjugation, side chains and terminal
groups are the two other molecular structure factors which can greatly affect the photovoltaic …

A molecular tandem cell for efficient solar water splitting

D Wang, J Hu, BD Sherman… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Artificial photosynthesis provides a way to store solar energy in chemical bonds. Achieving
water splitting without an applied external potential bias provides the key to artificial …

Effects of alkyl chains of benzothiadiazole-based conjugated polymers on the photovoltaic performance of non-fullerene organic solar cells

C Wang, J Fang, C Guan, Z Hu, T Wu, C Xiao… - Polymer Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Alkyl chains are commonly used as solubilizer to guarantee the solubility of conjugated
polymers. More importantly, the position, length, and type (linear/branched) of alkyl chains in …