Benzothiadiazole-based polymer donors

P Cong, Z Wang, Y Geng, Y Meng, C Meng, L Chen… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
As the most classic electron-accepting building block, 2, 1, 3-benzothiadiazole (BT) and the
derived structures have achieved great success to construct photovoltaic materials …

Recent advances in molecular design of functional conjugated polymers for high-performance polymer solar cells

CC Chueh, AKY Jen - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Continuous improvements have been made to drive the impressive progress of solution-
processed bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells (BHJ PSCs), in which the rationally …

Asymmetric alkoxy and alkyl substitution on nonfullerene acceptors enabling high‐performance organic solar cells

Y Chen, F Bai, Z Peng, L Zhu, J Zhang… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, a strategy of asymmetric alkyl and alkoxy substitution is applied to state‐of‐the‐
art Y‐series nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs), and it achieves great performance in organic …

Noncovalently fused-ring electron acceptors with near-infrared absorption for high-performance organic solar cells

H Huang, Q Guo, S Feng, C Zhang, Z Bi, W Xue… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Non-fullerene fused-ring electron acceptors boost the power conversion efficiency of organic
solar cells, but they suffer from high synthetic cost and low yield. Here, we show a series of …

A monothiophene unit incorporating both fluoro and ester substitution enabling high-performance donor polymers for non-fullerene solar cells with 16.4% efficiency

H Sun, T Liu, J Yu, TK Lau, G Zhang, Y Zhang… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Thiophene and its derivatives have been extensively used in organic electronics, particularly
in the field of polymer solar cells (PSCs). Significant research efforts have been dedicated to …

Alkoxy-functionalized bithiophene/thiazoles: versatile building blocks for high-performance organic and polymeric semiconductors

K Yang, Z Chen, Y Wang, X Guo - Accounts of Materials Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Organic electronics has experienced substantial advances in the past decade,
driven by the development of high-performance organic semiconductors (OSCs) in …

Chlorination: an effective strategy for high‐performance organic solar cells

Q Zhao, J Qu, F He - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This work summarizes recent developments in polymer solar cells (PSCs) prepared by a
chlorination strategy. The intrinsic property of chlorine atoms, the progress of chlorinated …

Nonfullerene acceptors for semitransparent organic solar cells

S Dai, X Zhan - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Semitransparent organic solar cells (ST‐OSCs) have appealing features, such as flexibility,
transparency, and color in addition to generating clean energy, and therefore show potential …

Development of quinoxaline based polymers for photovoltaic applications

J Yuan, J Ouyang, V Cimrová, M Leclerc… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer solar cells (PSCs) with a bulk heterojunction (BHJ) structure, ie a blend of a p-type
conjugated polymer with an n-type semiconductor acceptor, have made rapid progress over …

Branched alkoxy side chain enables high-performance non-fullerene acceptors with high open-circuit voltage and highly ordered molecular packing

J Liang, M Pan, Z Wang, J Zhang, F Bai… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The linear alkyl chains on the β-position of the thieno [3, 2-b] thiophene units of Y6 play a
critical role in determining the molecular properties of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) and …