Polythiophene and its derivatives for all-polymer solar cells

Q Bai, Y Cheng, W Wang, J Chen, H Sun - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs), employing conjugated polymers for both polymer donors
and acceptors within the active layer, offer numerous benefits, such as outstanding …

Binary All‐polymer Solar Cells with a Perhalogenated‐Thiophene‐Based Solid Additive Surpass 18% Efficiency

W Feng, T Chen, Y Li, T Duan, X Jiang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Morphological control of all‐polymer blends is quintessential yet challenging in fabricating
high‐performance organic solar cells. Recently, solid additives (SAs) have been approved …

Cyanoesterthiophene Based Low‐Cost Polymer Donors for High Efficiency Organic Solar Cells

J Wang, F Bi, L Du, C Shang, S Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To achieve commercial application of organic solar cells (OSCs), it is necessary to reduce
material costs and improve device efficiency. This paper reports on the utilization of a …

Insight Into Designing High‐Performance Polythiophenes for Reduced Urbach Energy and Nonradiative Recombination in Organic Solar Cells

Z Sun, H Ma, S Yang, Y Cho, S Lee… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the pursuit of high‐efficiency polythiophene (PT) organic solar cells (OSCs), a critical
challenge is the reduction of nonradiative recombination. This study comprehensively …

Noncovalent Interaction Boosts Performance and Stability of Organic Solar Cells Based on Giant-Molecule Acceptors

J Peng, F Meng, J Cheng, X Lai, M Du… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Designing giant-molecule acceptors is deemed as an up-and-coming strategy to construct
stable organic solar cells (OSCs) with high performance. Herein, two giant dimeric …

Ternary polythiophene enables over 17% efficiency organic solar cells

Q Ai, Z Lin, X Wu, Y Zhu, K Wang, X Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Polythiophenes (PTs) are one of the most promising donor materials for organic solar cells
(OSCs), because of their low-cost production. However, most PT-based OSCs suffer from …

Optimizing the power conversion processes in diluted donor/acceptor heterojunctions towards 19.4% efficiency all-polymer solar cells

L Wang, C Chen, Z Gan, C Liu, C Guo, W Xia… - Journal of Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
All polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) promise mechanically-flexible and morphologically-stable
organic photovoltaics and have aroused increased interests very recently. However, due to …

Polymerized-Small-Molecule Acceptors Featuring Siloxane-Terminated Side Chains for Mechanically Robust All-Polymer Solar Cells

J He, D Zhang, J Liu, lvpeng Yang… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Flexible and stretchable organic solar cells (OSCs) show great promise in wearable and
stretchable electronic applications. However, current high-performance OSCs consisting of …

Regiospecific Incorporation of Fluorine Atoms in Polythiophene Derivatives for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

TNL Phan, JW Lee, THQ Nguyen… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Derivatives of polythiophene (PT) have garnered considerable attention in organic solar
cells (OSCs) because of their relatively uncomplicated molecular structures and cost …

Intramolecular Lock Conjugated Polymer Electrolytes as the Cathode Interfacial Layer for Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

J Quan, D Zhou, W Wan, F Wang, L Hu… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
D–A polymers exhibit excellent intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) properties due to the
differences in energy levels. However, bulky dihedral angles between D and A units with …