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 …

Minimizing non-radiative recombination losses in perovskite solar cells

D Luo, R Su, W Zhang, Q Gong, R Zhu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Photovoltaic solar cells based on metal-halide perovskites have gained considerable
attention over the past decade because of their potentially low production cost, earth …

Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology

L Zhu, M Zhang, J Xu, C Li, J Yan, G Zhou, W Zhong… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
In organic photovoltaics, morphological control of donor and acceptor domains on the
nanoscale is the key for enabling efficient exciton diffusion and dissociation, carrier transport …

[HTML][HTML] Single-layered organic photovoltaics with double cascading charge transport pathways: 18% efficiencies

M Zhang, L Zhu, G Zhou, T Hao, C Qiu, Z Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The chemical structure of donors and acceptors limit the power conversion efficiencies
achievable with active layers of binary donor-acceptor mixtures. Here, using quaternary …

[HTML][HTML] Free charge photogeneration in a single component high photovoltaic efficiency organic semiconductor

MB Price, PA Hume, A Ilina, I Wagner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) promise cheap and flexible solar energy. Whereas light
generates free charges in silicon photovoltaics, excitons are normally formed in organic …

The role of charge recombination to triplet excitons in organic solar cells

AJ Gillett, A Privitera, R Dilmurat, A Karki, D Qian… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The use of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) in organic solar cells has led to power
conversion efficiencies as high as 18%. However, organic solar cells are still less efficient …

Restrained energetic disorder for high-efficiency organic solar cells via a solid additive

Z Chen, H Yao, J Wang, J Zhang, T Zhang… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Energetic disorder is one of the major impediments that limits the performance of organic
solar cells (OSCs). Nevertheless, achieving a favorable nanoscale morphology that restricts …

Tailored fabrication of carbon dot composites with full‐color ultralong room‐temperature phosphorescence for multidimensional encryption

Y Ding, X Wang, M Tang, H Qiu - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ultralong room‐temperature phosphorescence (RTP) is highly useful for information
encryption, organic electronics, bioelectronics, etc. However, the preparation of related …

Metal-free photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution

MZ Rahman, MG Kibria, CB Mullins - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review focuses on the discussion of the latest progress and remaining challenges in
selected metal-free photocatalysts for hydrogen production. The scope of this review is …

Charge separation from an intra-moiety intermediate state in the high-performance PM6: Y6 organic photovoltaic blend

R Wang, C Zhang, Q Li, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices with nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) exhibit
efficient hole transfer with small interfacial energy offset, which results in power conversion …