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 …

Harnessing the Structure‐Performance Relationships in Designing Non‐Fused Ring Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

A Mishra, GD Sharma - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The prerequisite for commercially viable organic solar cells (OSC) is to reduce the efficiency‐
stability‐cost gap. Therefore, the cost of organic materials should be reduced by minimizing …

Non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics: an emerging horizon

Y Lin, X Zhan - Materials Horizons, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Although fullerenes and their derivatives, such as PCBM, have been the dominant electron-
acceptor materials in organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs), they suffer from some …

Small molecule organic semiconductors on the move: promises for future solar energy technology

A Mishra, P Bäuerle - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This article is written from an organic chemist's point of view and provides an up‐to‐date
review about organic solar cells based on small molecules or oligomers as absorbers and in …

Small molecule semiconductors for high-efficiency organic photovoltaics

Y Lin, Y Li, X Zhan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) are a promising cost-effective alternative to silicon-based
solar cells, and possess light-weight, low-cost, and flexibility advantages. Significant …

CF3-Terminated Side Chain Enables Efficiencies Surpassing 18.2% and 16.1% in Small- and Large-Scale Manufacturing of Organic Solar Cells

Y Cho, Z Sun, KM Lee, G Zeng, S Jeong… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Many studies have proven the significant roles of side chains far beyond being the
solubilizing groups as well as the interesting merits of fluorination on π-backbones in the …

Design of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)‐Based small molecules for organic‐solar‐cell applications

A Tang, C Zhan, J Yao, E Zhou - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
After the first report in 2008, diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)‐based small‐molecule photovoltaic
materials have been intensively explored. The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) for the …

Small molecule solution-processed bulk heterojunction solar cells

B Walker, C Kim, TQ Nguyen - Chemistry of Materials, 2011 - ACS Publications
Although most research in the field of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells has focused on
combinations of a p-type conducting polymer as a donor and a fullerene-based acceptor …

Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based materials for organic photovoltaics

S Qu, H Tian - Chemical Communications, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) pigments have been widely used in inks, paints, and plastics
since it was first developed back in the early 1970s. The DPP-based materials were …

Polymers for electronics and spintronics

P Bujak, I Kulszewicz-Bajer, M Zagorska… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This critical review is devoted to semiconducting and high spin polymers which are of great
scientific interest in view of further development of the organic electronics and the emerging …