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 …

Conjugated polymers for visible-light-driven photocatalysis

C Dai, B Liu - Energy & Environmental Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Conjugated polymers have recently been under active investigation as promising
alternatives to traditional inorganic semiconductors for photocatalysis. This is due to their …

Peripheral halogenation engineering controls molecular stacking to enable highly efficient organic solar cells

Y Zou, H Chen, X Bi, X Xu, H Wang, M Lin… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The diverse molecular stacking tuned by peripheral halogens in non-fullerene acceptors
(NFAs) significantly affects the molecular physicochemical properties, the film morphologies …

Over 16% efficiency organic photovoltaic cells enabled by a chlorinated acceptor with increased open-circuit voltages

Y Cui, H Yao, J Zhang, T Zhang, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Broadening the optical absorption of organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials by enhancing the
intramolecular push-pull effect is a general and effective method to improve the power …

Fluoropolymers in biomedical applications: state-of-the-art and future perspectives

J Lv, Y Cheng - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluoropolymers have unique physicochemical properties such as hydrophobicity and
lipophobicity, good chemical stability and bio-inertness, low surface energy and phase …

N-type organic and polymeric semiconductors based on bithiophene imide derivatives

K Feng, H Guo, H Sun, X Guo - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus In the last three decades, p-type (hole-transporting) organic and polymeric
semiconductors have achieved great success in terms of materials diversity and device …

Over 14% efficiency in organic solar cells enabled by chlorinated nonfullerene small‐molecule acceptors

H Zhang, H Yao, J Hou, J Zhu, J Zhang, W Li… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To make organic solar cells (OSCs) more competitive in the diverse photovoltaic cell
technologies, it is very important to demonstrate that OSCs can achieve very good …

A low cost and high performance polymer donor material for polymer solar cells

C Sun, F Pan, H Bin, J Zhang, L Xue, B Qiu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The application of polymer solar cells requires the realization of high efficiency, high
stability, and low cost devices. Here we demonstrate a low-cost polymer donor poly …

A wide band gap polymer with a deep highest occupied molecular orbital level enables 14.2% efficiency in polymer solar cells

S Li, L Ye, W Zhao, H Yan, B Yang, D Liu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
To simultaneously achieve low photon energy loss (E loss) and broad spectral response, the
molecular design of the wide band gap (WBG) donor polymer with a deep HOMO level is of …

Hybridization of local exciton and charge-transfer states reduces nonradiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

FD Eisner, M Azzouzi, Z Fei, X Hou… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A number of recent studies have shown that the nonradiative voltage losses in organic solar
cells can be suppressed in systems with low energetic offsets between donor and acceptor …