Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

Fused-ring electron acceptors for photovoltaics and beyond

J Wang, X Zhan - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Emerging solar cells that convert clean and renewable solar energy to
electricity, such as organic solar cells (OSCs) and perovskite solar cells (PSCs), have …

Completely non-fused electron acceptor with 3D-interpenetrated crystalline structure enables efficient and stable organic solar cell

L Ma, S Zhang, J Zhu, J Wang, J Ren, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) based on non-fused conjugated structures have more
potential to realize low-cost organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. However, their power …

Design of a Fully Non‐Fused Bulk Heterojunction toward Efficient and Low‐Cost Organic Photovoltaics

L Ma, S Zhang, J Ren, G Wang, J Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To modulate the miscibility between donor and acceptor materials both possessing fully non‐
fused ring structures, a series of electron acceptors (A4T‐16, A4T‐31 and A4T‐32) with …

Recent progress in low‐cost noncovalently fused‐ring electron acceptors for organic solar cells: Special Issue: Emerging Investigators

Q Bai, Q Liang, H Li, H Sun, X Guo, L Niu - Aggregate, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) have improved
considerably in recent years with the development of fused‐ring electron acceptors (FREAs) …

Importance of structural hinderance in performance–stability equilibrium of organic photovoltaics

B Fan, W Gao, X Wu, X Xia, Y Wu, FR Lin, Q Fan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Power conversion efficiency and long-term stability are two critical metrics for evaluating the
commercial potential of organic photovoltaics. Although the field has witnessed a rapid …

Non-fullerene acceptors with hetero-dihalogenated terminals induce significant difference in single crystallography and enable binary organic solar cells with 17.5 …

L Wang, Q An, L Yan, HR Bai, M Jiang… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the dihalogenation of terminals being an effective strategy to produce efficient
nonfullerene acceptor (NFA)-based organic solar cells (OSCs), hetero-dihalogenated …

Fine-tuning of side-chain orientations on nonfullerene acceptors enables organic solar cells with 17.7% efficiency

G Chai, Y Chang, J Zhang, X Xu, L Yu, X Zou… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Side-chain engineering has been shown to be an important strategy to optimize Y-series
nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs). Most previous reports were focusing on changing the …

Isogenous asymmetric–symmetric acceptors enable efficient ternary organic solar cells with thin and 300 nm thick active layers simultaneously

HR Bai, Q An, M Jiang, HS Ryu, J Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Integrating desirable light absorption, energy levels, and morphology in one matrix is always
the aspiration to construct high‐performance organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, an …

A random terpolymer donor with similar monomers enables 18.28% efficiency binary organic solar cells with well polymer batch reproducibility

HR Bai, Q An, HF Zhi, M Jiang, A Mahmood… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Herein, by using two fluorinated and chlorinated monomers with similar structures in
different molar ratios and dithieno [3′, 2′: 3, 4; 2 ″, 3 ″: 5, 6] benzo [1, 2-c][1, 2, 5] …