Recent progress in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors: materials to devices

D Luo, W Jang, DD Babu, MS Kim, DH Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) were dominated by donor–acceptor blends based on polymer
donors and fullerene acceptors for nearly two decades. In the past, apprehensions about the …

PBDB-T and its derivatives: A family of polymer donors enables over 17% efficiency in organic photovoltaics

Z Zheng, H Yao, L Ye, Y Xu, S Zhang, J Hou - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to the advantages such as being low cost, light weight, and flexible as well as having
low toxicity, organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted extensive interest. The field of OSCs …

Suppressing electron-phonon coupling in organic photovoltaics for high-efficiency power conversion

Y Jiang, Y Li, F Liu, W Wang, W Su, W Liu, S Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The nonradiative energy loss (∆ E nr) is a critical factor to limit the efficiency of organic solar
cells. Generally, strong electron-phonon coupling induced by molecular motion generates …

Subtle molecular tailoring induces significant morphology optimization enabling over 16% efficiency organic solar cells with efficient charge generation

Z Zhou, W Liu, G Zhou, M Zhang, D Qian… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Manipulating charge generation in a broad spectral region has proved to be crucial for
nonfullerene‐electron‐acceptor‐based organic solar cells (OSCs). 16.64% high efficiency …

High-efficiency small-molecule ternary solar cells with a hierarchical morphology enabled by synergizing fullerene and non-fullerene acceptors

Z Zhou, S Xu, J Song, Y Jin, Q Yue, Y Qian, F Liu… - Nature Energy, 2018 - nature.com
Using combinatory photoactive blends is a promising approach to achieve high power
conversion efficiency in ternary organic photovoltaics. However, the fundamental challenge …

Over 14% efficiency in organic solar cells enabled by chlorinated nonfullerene small‐molecule acceptors

H Zhang, H Yao, J Hou, J Zhu, J Zhang, W Li… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To make organic solar cells (OSCs) more competitive in the diverse photovoltaic cell
technologies, it is very important to demonstrate that OSCs can achieve very good …

A wide band gap polymer with a deep highest occupied molecular orbital level enables 14.2% efficiency in polymer solar cells

S Li, L Ye, W Zhao, H Yan, B Yang, D Liu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
To simultaneously achieve low photon energy loss (E loss) and broad spectral response, the
molecular design of the wide band gap (WBG) donor polymer with a deep HOMO level is of …

n-Type molecular photovoltaic materials: design strategies and device applications

Q Yue, W Liu, X Zhu - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020 - ACS Publications
The use of photovoltaic technologies has been regarded as a promising approach for
converting solar energy to electricity and mitigating the energy crisis, and among these …

Effect of isomerization on high-performance nonfullerene electron acceptors

J Wang, J Zhang, Y Xiao, T Xiao, R Zhu… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We design and synthesize two isomeric fused-ring electron acceptors, FNIC1 and FNIC2,
which have the same end-groups and side-chains, but isomeric fused-nine-ring cores …

Dithieno[3,2‐b:2′,3′‐d]pyrrol Fused Nonfullerene Acceptors Enabling Over 13% Efficiency for Organic Solar Cells

J Sun, X Ma, Z Zhang, J Yu, J Zhou, X Yin… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A new electron‐rich central building block, 5, 5, 12, 12‐tetrakis (4‐hexylphenyl)‐indacenobis‐
(dithieno [3, 2‐b: 2′, 3′‐d] pyrrol)(INP), and two derivative nonfullerene acceptors (INPIC …