Recent progress in organic solar cells: a review on materials from acceptor to donor

Y Li, W Huang, D Zhao, L Wang, Z Jiao, Q Huang… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, organic solar cells (OSCs) have drawn broad interest owing to their
advantages such as being low cost, flexible, semitransparent, non-toxic, and ideal for roll-to …

Morphology control in organic solar cells

F Zhao, C Wang, X Zhan - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) can directly convert the sunlight into electrical energy and
present some advantages, such as low cost, light weight, flexibility, semitransparency, and …

Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and polymer batch insensitive organic solar cells

K Weng, L Ye, L Zhu, J Xu, J Zhou, X Feng, G Lu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Morphology control in laboratory and industry setting remains as a major challenge for
organic solar cells (OSCs) due to the difference in film-drying kinetics between spin coating …

All-small-molecule organic solar cells with over 14% efficiency by optimizing hierarchical morphologies

R Zhou, Z Jiang, C Yang, J Yu, J Feng, MA Adil… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The high efficiency all-small-molecule organic solar cells (OSCs) normally require optimized
morphology in their bulk heterojunction active layers. Herein, a small-molecule donor is …

Solution‐processed organic solar cells with high open‐circuit voltage of 1.3 V and low non‐radiative voltage loss of 0.16 V

N An, Y Cai, H Wu, A Tang, K Zhang, X Hao… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with inorganic or perovskite solar cells, the relatively large non‐radiative
recombination voltage losses (ΔVnon‐rad) in organic solar cells (OSCs) limit the …

Polymer donors for high‐performance non‐fullerene organic solar cells

H Fu, Z Wang, Y Sun - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few years, non‐fullerene organic solar cells have been a focus of research
and their power conversion efficiencies have been improved dramatically from about 6% to …

Molecular design of benzodithiophene-based organic photovoltaic materials

H Yao, L Ye, H Zhang, S Li, S Zhang, J Hou - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Advances in the design and application of highly efficient conjugated polymers and small
molecules over the past years have enabled the rapid progress in the development of …

Recent advances in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells

L Lu, T Zheng, Q Wu, AM Schneider, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
It is clear that the current energy regimen, which relies on nonrenewable and polluting
energy sources, has unsustainable consequences for societal, economical, geopolitical, and …

High-performance conjugated polymer donor materials for polymer solar cells with narrow-bandgap nonfullerene acceptors

C Cui, Y Li - Energy & Environmental Science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In the past few years, the emergence of nonfullerene (n-type organic semiconductor (n-OS))
acceptors combining with the rational design of conjugated polymer donor materials has …

High-performance electron acceptor with thienyl side chains for organic photovoltaics

Y Lin, F Zhao, Q He, L Huo, Y Wu… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We develop an efficient fused-ring electron acceptor (ITIC-Th) based on indacenodithieno
[3, 2-b] thiophene core and thienyl side-chains for organic solar cells (OSCs). Relative to its …