Conducting polymers for optoelectronic devices and organic solar cells: A review

A R. Murad, A Iraqi, SB Aziz, S N. Abdullah, MA Brza - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this review paper, we present a comprehensive summary of the different organic solar cell
(OSC) families. Pure and doped conjugated polymers are described. The band structure …

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 …

Molecular design and ordering effects in π-functional materials for transistor and solar cell applications

PM Beaujuge, JMJ Fréchet - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Organic electronics are broadly anticipated to impact the development of flexible thin-film
device technologies. Among these, solution-processable π-conjugated polymers and small …

Controlling the Morphology and Performance of Bulk Heterojunctions in Solar Cells. Lessons Learned from the Benchmark Poly(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]-Phenyl-C61 …

MT Dang, L Hirsch, G Wantz, JD Wuest - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Photovoltaic cells are an established and increasingly important technology for the
production of renewable energy. 1 Despite the expanding use of inorganic semiconductors …

Recent advances in morphology optimization for organic photovoltaics

H Lee, C Park, DH Sin, JH Park, K Cho - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics are an important part of a next‐generation energy‐harvesting
technology that uses a practically infinite pollutant‐free energy source. They have the …

Recent development of push–pull conjugated polymers for bulk-heterojunction photovoltaics: rational design and fine tailoring of molecular structures

C Duan, F Huang, Y Cao - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells have emerged as an attractive type of cost-effective
solar energy–electrical power transforming device. Recently, great progress in the …

(Semi) ladder-type bithiophene imide-based all-acceptor semiconductors: Synthesis, structure–property correlations, and unipolar n-type transistor performance

Y Wang, H Guo, A Harbuzaru, MA Uddin… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Development of high-performance unipolar n-type organic semiconductors still remains as a
great challenge. In this work, all-acceptor bithiophene imide-based ladder-type small …

Design strategies for organic semiconductors beyond the molecular formula

ZB Henson, K Müllen, GC Bazan - Nature chemistry, 2012 - nature.com
Organic semiconducting materials based on polymers and molecular systems containing an
electronically delocalized structure are the basis of emerging optoelectronic technologies …

Direct arylation polymerization: A guide to optimal conditions for effective conjugated polymers

NS Gobalasingham, BC Thompson - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
The rapid increase in the breadth and scope of transformations that involve metal-promoted
activation of Csingle bondH bonds is fundamentally changing the field of synthetic …

Homocoupling defects in diketopyrrolopyrrole-based copolymers and their effect on photovoltaic performance

KH Hendriks, W Li, GHL Heintges… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We study the occurrence and effect of intrachain homocoupling defects in alternating push–
pull semiconducting PDPPTPT polymers based on dithienyl–diketopyrrolopyrrole (TDPPT) …