Advantages, challenges and molecular design of different material types used in organic solar cells

J Yi, G Zhang, H Yu, H Yan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10
years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic electron–acceptor …

Non-fused and fused ring non-fullerene acceptors

R Dominguez, LM Moreno, F Langa… - Current Opinion in Colloid …, 2024 - Elsevier
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted attention due to their lightweight, flexibility and
transparency. Recent advances in OSC materials, especially non-fullerene acceptors …

Building Blocks for High‐Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics: Interplay of Molecular, Crystal, and Electronic Properties in Post‐Fullerene ITIC Ensembles

SM Swick, T Gebraad, L Jones, B Fu… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction data offer a unique opportunity to compare and
contrast the atomistic details of bulk heterojunction photovoltaic small‐molecule acceptor …

Improving Photovoltaic Properties of P3HT:IC60BA through the Incorporation of Small Molecules

B Xu, G Sai-Anand, AI Gopalan, Q Qiao, SW Kang - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
We investigated the role of a functional solid additive, 2, 3-dihydroxypyridine (DHP), in
influencing the optoelectronic, morphological, structural and photovoltaic properties of bulk …

Realizing broad-bandwidth visible wavelength photodiode based on solution-processed ZnPc/PC71BM dyad

Q Zafar, N Fatima, KS Karimov, MM Ahmed… - Optical Materials, 2017 - Elsevier
Herein, we demonstrate a solution-processed visible wavelength organic photodiode (OPD)
using donor/acceptor dyad of zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) and [6, 6]-phenyl-C71-butyric-acid …

Influence of selenophene–thiophene phase separation on solar cell performance

D Gao, J Hollinger, AA Jahnke… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
We compare the morphology and solar cell device performance of selenophene–thiophene
copolymers that have the same degree of polymerization and composition, and differ only in …

Oleylamine-functionalized graphene oxide as an electron block layer towards high-performance and photostable fullerene-free polymer solar cells

Z Liu, S Niu, N Wang - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Oleylamine-functionalized graphene oxide (GO) has a shallower energy level of conduction
band (ECB) and a deeper energy level of the valence band (EVB) as compared to common …

Morphology visualization of P3HT: Fullerene blends by using subsurface atomic layer deposition

S Obuchovsky, M Levin, A Levitsky, GL Frey - Organic Electronics, 2017 - Elsevier
The heart of every organic solar cell (OSC) is the organic donor: acceptor bulk
heterojunction (BHJ). The complex morphology of the BHJ, composed of both ordered and …

'Blocky'donor–acceptor polymers containing selenophene, benzodithiophene and thienothiophene for improved molecular ordering

D Gao, GL Gibson, J Hollinger, P Li, DS Seferos - Polymer Chemistry, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Controlling the phase-separation behavior and achieving an ideal morphology has turned
into one of the most important challenges in the field of polymer electronics. In this study we …

Photoinduced electron transfer and changes in surface free energy in Polythiophene-Polyviologen bilayered thin films

MK Danielson, J Chen, AK Vaclavek, ND Colley… - ACS Polymers …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Bipyridiniums, also known as viologens, are well-documented electron acceptors that are
generally easy to synthesize on a large scale and reversibly cycle between three oxidation …