Critical review of the molecular design progress in non-fullerene electron acceptors towards commercially viable organic solar cells

A Wadsworth, M Moser, A Marks, MS Little… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Fullerenes have formed an integral part of high performance organic solar cells over the last
20 years, however their inherent limitations in terms of synthetic flexibility, cost and stability …

Organic and polymeric semiconductors enhanced by noncovalent conformational locks

H Huang, L Yang, A Facchetti, TJ Marks - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Constructing highly planar, extended π-electron systems is an important strategy for
achieving high-mobility organic semiconductors. In general, there are two synthetic …

Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and polymer batch insensitive organic solar cells

K Weng, L Ye, L Zhu, J Xu, J Zhou, X Feng, G Lu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Morphology control in laboratory and industry setting remains as a major challenge for
organic solar cells (OSCs) due to the difference in film-drying kinetics between spin coating …

Intrinsically Stretchable and Non‐Halogenated Solvent Processed Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by Hydrophilic Spacer‐Incorporated Polymers

JW Lee, C Lim, SW Lee, Y Jeon, S Lee… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Blends of polymer donors (PDs) and small molecule acceptors (SMAs) have afforded highly
efficient polymer solar cells (PSCs). However, most of the efficient PSCs are processed …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient polymer solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors with potential device lifetime approaching 10 years

X Du, T Heumueller, W Gruber, A Classen, T Unruh… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
Organic solar cells (OSCs) based on non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have developed very
fast in recent years. A proper balance among power conversion efficiency (PCE), stability …

[PDF][PDF] Energy-level modulation of small-molecule electron acceptors to achieve over 12% efficiency in polymer solar cells

S Li, L Ye, W Zhao, S Zhang, S Mukherjee, H Ade… - Adv. Mater, 2016 - researchgate.net
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201602776 poly [(2, 6-(4, 8-bis (5-(2-ethylhexyl) thiophen-2-yl) benzo
[1, 2-b: 4, 5-b′] dithiophene)-co-(1, 3-di (5-thiophene-2-yl)-5, 7-bis (2-ethylhexyl)-benzo [1 …

Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells

D Baran, RS Ashraf, DA Hanifi, M Abdelsamie… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Technological deployment of organic photovoltaic modules requires improvements in device
light-conversion efficiency and stability while keeping material costs low. Here we …

Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force

J Liu, S Chen, D Qian, B Gautam, G Yang, J Zhao… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
Fast and efficient charge separation is essential to achieve high power conversion efficiency
in organic solar cells (OSCs). In state-of-the-art OSCs, this is usually achieved by a …

Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells with over 11% Efficiency and Excellent Thermal Stability.

W Zhao, D Qian, S Zhang, S Li, O Inganäs… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2016 - europepmc.org
A nonfullerene-based polymer solar cell (PSC) that significantly outperforms fullerene-based
PSCs with respect to the power-conversion efficiency is demonstrated for the first time. An …

11.4% Efficiency non-fullerene polymer solar cells with trialkylsilyl substituted 2D-conjugated polymer as donor

H Bin, L Gao, ZG Zhang, Y Yang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Simutaneously high open circuit voltage and high short circuit current density is a big
challenge for achieving high efficiency polymer solar cells due to the excitonic nature of …