Since the discovery of graphene in the early 2000′ s, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs) have been resurrected and new synthetic tools have been developed to prepare …

Organic solar cells (OSCs) have been recognized to have tremendous potential as
alternatives to their inorganic counterparts, with devices that are lowcost, lightweight, and …

Organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted wide research interests in the past decades. In
recent years, our group mainly focused on the new photovoltaic materials design and device …

There has been recent interest in creating new functional materials based on cyclopenta-
fused polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (CP-PAH) that can be integrated into organic …

Organic photovoltaics have been considered as a future low-cost solar energy conversion
solution, and have attracted tremendous academic and industrial interests in recent years …

© 2016 Mac millan Publishers Li mited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. cells,
such as those based on GaAs, lose about 0.3 V compared with the voltage equivalent of the …

This work discusses the use of donor and acceptor materials from organic photovoltaics in
solar fuel applications. These two routes to solar energy conversion have many shared …

We have prepared, characterized and surveyed device performance for a series of electron
deficient pentacenes for use as acceptors in polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells, using …

Polythiophenes (PTs) are promising electron donors for organic solar cells (OSCs) due to
their low production cost. However, the device performance of PTs in OSCs is rather poor …

Conspectus Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), consisting of laterally fused benzene
rings, are among the most widely studied small-molecule organic semiconductors, with …