Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

Nonfullerene acceptor molecules for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

G Zhang, J Zhao, PCY Chow, K Jiang, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The bulk-heterojunction blend of an electron donor and an electron acceptor material is the
key component in a solution-processed organic photovoltaic device. In the past decades, a p …

Interfacial engineering of Bi2S3/Ti3C2Tx MXene based on work function for rapid photo-excited bacteria-killing

J Li, Z Li, X Liu, C Li, Y Zheng, KWK Yeung… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In view of increasing drug resistance, ecofriendly photoelectrical materials are promising
alternatives to antibiotics. Here we design an interfacial Schottky junction of Bi2S3/Ti3C2T x …

Organic optoelectronic materials: mechanisms and applications

O Ostroverkhova - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic (opto) electronic materials have received considerable attention due to their
applications in thin-film-transistors, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, sensors, photorefractive …

Charge-transfer electronic states in organic solar cells

V Coropceanu, XK Chen, T Wang, Z Zheng… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In organic solar cells, the charge-transfer (CT) electronic states that form at the interface
between the electron-donor (D) and electron-acceptor (A) materials have a crucial role in …

Impedance spectroscopy for emerging photovoltaics

E Von Hauff - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019 - ACS Publications
Impedance spectroscopy has been widely applied over the last decades to study
electrochemical systems and solid-state devices. However, performing impedance …

Small is powerful: recent progress in solution‐processed small molecule solar cells

SD Collins, NA Ran, MC Heiber… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 5 years, research on the synthesis, device engineering, and device physics of
solution‐processed small molecule solar cells (SMSCs) has rapidly expanded …

Molecular helices as electron acceptors in high-performance bulk heterojunction solar cells

Y Zhong, MT Trinh, R Chen, GE Purdum… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Despite numerous organic semiconducting materials synthesized for organic photovoltaics
in the past decade, fullerenes are widely used as electron acceptors in highly efficient bulk …

Ultrafast electron dynamics in solar energy conversion

CS Ponseca Jr, P Chábera, J Uhlig, P Persson… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Electrons are the workhorses of solar energy conversion. Conversion of the energy of light to
electricity in photovoltaics, or to energy-rich molecules (solar fuel) through photocatalytic …

The effect of H‐and J‐aggregation on the photophysical and photovoltaic properties of small thiophene–pyridine–DPP molecules for bulk‐heterojunction solar cells

M Más‐Montoya, RAJ Janssen - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The performance of organic semiconductors in optoelectronic devices depends on the
functional properties of the individual molecules and their mutual orientations when they are …