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 …

Ternary blend organic solar cells: understanding the morphology from recent progress

X Xu, Y Li, Q Peng - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ternary blend organic solar cells (TB‐OSCs) incorporating multiple donor and/or acceptor
materials into the active layer have emerged as a promising strategy to simultaneously …

Polythiophenes for organic solar cells with efficiency surpassing 17%

X Yuan, Y Zhao, D Xie, L Pan, X Liu, C Duan, F Huang… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Polythiophenes (PTs) are promising electron donors for organic solar cells (OSCs) due to
their low production cost. However, the device performance of PTs in OSCs is rather poor …

18.77% efficiency organic solar cells promoted by aqueous solution processed cobalt (II) acetate hole transporting layer

H Meng, C Liao, M Deng, X Xu, L Yu… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A robust hole transporting layer (HTL), using the cost‐effective Cobalt (II) acetate
tetrahydrate (Co (OAc) 2⋅ 4 H2O) as the precursor, was simply processed from its aqueous …

Organoboron molecules and polymers for organic solar cell applications

J Miao, Y Wang, J Liu, L Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) are emerging as a new photovoltaic technology with the great
advantages of low cost, light-weight, flexibility and semi-transparency. They are promising …

Benzothiadiazole-based polymer donors

P Cong, Z Wang, Y Geng, Y Meng, C Meng, L Chen… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
As the most classic electron-accepting building block, 2, 1, 3-benzothiadiazole (BT) and the
derived structures have achieved great success to construct photovoltaic materials …

Regioisomer‐free difluoro‐monochloro terminal‐based hexa‐halogenated acceptor with optimized crystal packing for efficient binary organic solar cells

L Yan, H Zhang, Q An, M Jiang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we synthesized new hetero‐halogenated end groups with well‐determined
fluorinated and chlorinated substitutions (o‐FCl‐IC and FClF‐IC), and synthesized …

High-efficiency organic solar cells with low voltage loss induced by solvent additive strategy

J Song, L Zhu, C Li, J Xu, H Wu, X Zhang, Y Zhang… - Matter, 2021 - cell.com
High voltage loss (V loss) limits further improvements of organic solar cells (OSCs), and thus
developing effective approaches to reduce V loss is important. Herein, a solvent additive …

Recent progress in organic solar cells: a review on materials from acceptor to donor

Y Li, W Huang, D Zhao, L Wang, Z Jiao, Q Huang… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, organic solar cells (OSCs) have drawn broad interest owing to their
advantages such as being low cost, flexible, semitransparent, non-toxic, and ideal for roll-to …

A random terpolymer donor with similar monomers enables 18.28% efficiency binary organic solar cells with well polymer batch reproducibility

HR Bai, Q An, HF Zhi, M Jiang, A Mahmood… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Herein, by using two fluorinated and chlorinated monomers with similar structures in
different molar ratios and dithieno [3′, 2′: 3, 4; 2 ″, 3 ″: 5, 6] benzo [1, 2-c][1, 2, 5] …