Recent advances in single‐junction organic solar cells

H Yao, J Hou - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐junction organic solar cells (OSCs) have made significant progress in recent years.
Innovations in material design and device optimization have improved the power conversion …

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 …

Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells

C Li, J Zhou, J Song, J Xu, H Zhang, X Zhang, J Guo… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular design of non-fullerene acceptors is of vital importance for high-efficiency organic
solar cells. The branched alkyl chain modification is often regarded as a counter-intuitive …

Achieving record-efficiency organic solar cells upon tuning the conformation of solid additives

C Li, X Gu, Z Chen, X Han, N Yu, Y Wei… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Volatile solid additives (SADs) are considered as a simple yet effective approach to tune the
film morphology for high-performance organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the structural …

Completely non-fused electron acceptor with 3D-interpenetrated crystalline structure enables efficient and stable organic solar cell

L Ma, S Zhang, J Zhu, J Wang, J Ren, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) based on non-fused conjugated structures have more
potential to realize low-cost organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. However, their power …

A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z Xiao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

Polymerized small molecular acceptor based all-polymer solar cells with an efficiency of 16.16% via tuning polymer blend morphology by molecular design

J Du, K Hu, J Zhang, L Meng, J Yue… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) based on polymerized small molecular acceptors (PSMAs)
have made significant progress recently. Here, we synthesize two A-DA'DA small molecule …

Recent progress in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors: materials to devices

D Luo, W Jang, DD Babu, MS Kim, DH Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) were dominated by donor–acceptor blends based on polymer
donors and fullerene acceptors for nearly two decades. In the past, apprehensions about the …

Halogenated nonfused ring electron acceptor for organic solar cells with a record efficiency of over 17%

D Li, H Zhang, X Cui, YN Chen, N Wei… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Three nonfused ring electron acceptors (NFREAs), namely, 3TT‐C2‐F, 3TT‐C2‐Cl, and 3TT‐
C2, are purposefully designed and synthesized with the concept of halogenation. The …

Unsymmetrically Chlorinated Non‐Fused Electron Acceptor Leads to High‐Efficiency and Stable Organic Solar Cells

DL Ma, QQ Zhang, CZ Li - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Searching the cost‐effective organic semiconductors is strongly needed in order to facilitate
the practice of organic solar cells (OSCs), yet to be fulfilled. Herein, we have succeeded in …