Bioinspiration in light harvesting and catalysis

AH Proppe, YC Li, A Aspuru-Guzik… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Capturing and converting solar energy into fuels and feedstocks is a global challenge that
spans numerous disciplines and fields of research. Billions of years of evolution have …

Recent progress of organic photovoltaics with efficiency over 17%

X Wang, Q Sun, J Gao, J Wang, C Xu, X Ma, F Zhang - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) has exceeded 18%
with narrow bandgap, non-fullerene materials Y6 or its derivatives when used as an electron …

Over 17.4% Efficiency of Layer‐by‐Layer All‐Polymer Solar Cells by Improving Exciton Utilization in Acceptor Layer

W Xu, M Zhang, X Ma, X Zhu, SY Jeong… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Layer‐by‐layer all‐polymer solar cells (LbL all‐PSCs) are prepared with PM6 and PY‐IT by
using sequential spin coating method. The exciton dissociation efficiency in acceptor layer …

Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells

S Karuthedath, J Gorenflot, Y Firdaus, N Chaturvedi… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
In bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) both the electron affinity (EA) and
ionization energy (IE) offsets at the donor–acceptor interface should equally control exciton …

Energy transfer in ternary blend organic solar cells: recent insights and future directions

AA Mohapatra, V Tiwari, S Patil - Energy & Environmental Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Resonance energy transfer (RET) can potentially improve the device efficiencies of ternary
blend organic solar cells (TBSCs). However, several parameters, such as domain …

High-performance pseudo-bilayer ternary organic solar cells with PC 71 BM as the third component

Y Yan, X Zhou, F Zhang, J Zhou, Y Zhu, D Xu… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Optimizing active layer morphology and broadening spectrum utilization range are important
methods to improve the performance of organic solar cells. In this study, PM6/Y6: PC71BM …

Förster resonance energy transfer assisted enhancement in optoelectronic properties of metal halide perovskite nanocrystals

L Mishra, RK Behera, A Panigrahi… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Regulated excited state energy and charge transfer play a pivotal role in nanoscale
semiconductor device performance for efficient energy harvesting and optoelectronic …

Burn-in degradation mechanism identified for small molecular acceptor-based high-efficiency nonfullerene organic solar cells

L Duan, Y Zhang, M He, R Deng, H Yi… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have again become a hot research topic in recent years. The
record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of OSCs has boosted to over 17% in 2020. Apart …

Trade‐off between exciton dissociation and carrier recombination and dielectric properties in Y6‐sensitized nonfullerene ternary organic solar cells

L Duan, Y Zhang, H Yi, F Haque, R Deng… - Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have emerged as a promising renewable energy generation
technology in past decades. However, the deep understanding of the details in exciton …

Bioengineered solar harvesting systems for next generation applications

S Saxena, F Dixit, GK Dalapathi, S Krishnamurthy… - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
In light of the ever growing enthusiasm and enormous curiosity towards bioinspired strategy
of material fabrication, this review compiles the milestone in the world of bio-hybrid …