Fused-ring electron acceptors for photovoltaics and beyond

J Wang, X Zhan - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Emerging solar cells that convert clean and renewable solar energy to
electricity, such as organic solar cells (OSCs) and perovskite solar cells (PSCs), have …

Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

C Yan, S Barlow, Z Wang, H Yan, AKY Jen… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) are currently a major focus of research in the development
of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells (OSCs). In contrast to the widely used fullerene …

[PDF][PDF] Semitransparent organic solar cells based on non-fullerene electron acceptors

B Liu, Y Xu, D Xia, C Xiao, Z Yang, W Li - Acta Phys.-Chim. Sin, 2021 - researchgate.net
Semitransparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs) have attracted attention for use in building
integrated photovoltaics because of their large range tunability in colors, transparency, and …

Single-junction organic solar cell with over 15% efficiency using fused-ring acceptor with electron-deficient core

J Yuan, Y Zhang, L Zhou, G Zhang, HL Yip, TK Lau… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
Recently, non-fullerene n-type organic semiconductors have attracted significant attention
as acceptors in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) due to their great potential to realize high …

Tuning the electron-deficient core of a non-fullerene acceptor to achieve over 17% efficiency in a single-junction organic solar cell

C Zhu, J Yuan, F Cai, L Meng, H Zhang… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Finding effective molecular design strategies to enable efficient charge generation and small
energy loss is among the long-standing challenges in developing high performance non …

Rational design of conjugated small molecules for superior photothermal theranostics in the NIR‐II biowindow

S Li, Q Deng, Y Zhang, X Li, G Wen, X Cui… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Extensive recent progress has been made on the design and applications of organic
photothermal agents for biomedical applications because of their excellent biocompatibility …

Improved charge transport and reduced nonradiative energy loss enable over 16% efficiency in ternary polymer solar cells

R Yu, H Yao, Y Cui, L Hong, C He, J Hou - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in the material design and synthesis of nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs)
have revealed a new landscape for polymer solar cells (PSCs) and have boosted the power …

Noncovalently fused-ring electron acceptors with near-infrared absorption for high-performance organic solar cells

H Huang, Q Guo, S Feng, C Zhang, Z Bi, W Xue… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Non-fullerene fused-ring electron acceptors boost the power conversion efficiency of organic
solar cells, but they suffer from high synthetic cost and low yield. Here, we show a series of …

Effect of isomerization on high-performance nonfullerene electron acceptors

J Wang, J Zhang, Y Xiao, T Xiao, R Zhu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We design and synthesize two isomeric fused-ring electron acceptors, FNIC1 and FNIC2,
which have the same end-groups and side-chains, but isomeric fused-nine-ring cores …

n-Type molecular photovoltaic materials: design strategies and device applications

Q Yue, W Liu, X Zhu - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020 - ACS Publications
The use of photovoltaic technologies has been regarded as a promising approach for
converting solar energy to electricity and mitigating the energy crisis, and among these …