Stability of organic solar cells: challenges and strategies

P Cheng, X Zhan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) present some advantages, such as simple preparation, light
weight, low cost and large-area flexible fabrication, and have attracted much attention in …

A review on fullerene derivatives with reduced electron affinity as acceptor materials for organic solar cells

AV Mumyatov, PA Troshin - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Organic solar cells (OSCs) represent a promising emerging photovoltaic technology offering
such benefits as light weight, mechanical flexibility, semitransparency, environmental …

Fullerene based acceptors for efficient bulk heterojunction organic solar cell applications

R Ganesamoorthy, G Sathiyan, P Sakthivel - Solar Energy Materials and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Bulk hetro-junction organic solar cells (BHJ-OSCs) which made by coating the blend of
highly electron rich, poly-3-hexylthiophene (P3HT) as a donor and extremely electron …

Development of isomer-free fullerene bisadducts for efficient polymer solar cells

Z Xiao, X Geng, D He, X Jia, L Ding - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Isomer-free fullerene bisadducts have been predicted to be high-performance acceptors for
bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. They can afford a higher open-circuit voltage …

Fulleretic materials: buckyball-and buckybowl-based crystalline frameworks

AM Rice, EA Dolgopolova, NB Shustova - Chemistry of Materials, 2017 - ACS Publications
Merging the intrinsic properties of fullerene (buckyball) and corannulene (buckybowl)
derivatives with the inherent properties of crystalline metal-and covalent-organic frameworks …

The evolution of small molecular acceptors for organic solar cells: Advances, challenges and prospects

X Liang, J Wang, R Miao, Q Zhao, L Huang, S Wen… - Dyes and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted lots of research attention and significant
developments have been achieved in the last decade. Small molecular acceptors (SMAs) …

Methanofullerenes, C60(CH2)n (n = 1, 2, 3), as Building Blocks for High-Performance Acceptors Used in Organic Solar Cells

D He, X Du, Z Xiao, L Ding - Organic letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
Selective preparation of C60 (CH2) n (n= 1, 2, 3) was realized via a “Bingel-decarboxylation”
route. A 54π-electron derivative of C60 (CH2) 2, OQBMF, demonstrates an outstanding …

Application of bis-PCBM in polymer solar cells with improved voltage

L Ye, S Zhang, D Qian, Q Wang… - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
In recent years, fullerene bis-adducts have gained significant interest within the academic
community due to their high-lying LUMO level. Herein, we carried out device optimization of …

Fullerene derivatives as electron acceptors for organic photovoltaic cells

D Mi, JH Kim, HU Kim, F Xu… - Journal of nanoscience …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Energy is currently one of the most important problems humankind faces. Depletion of
traditional energy sources such as coal and oil results in the need to develop new ways to …

Beyond PCBM: methoxylated 1, 4-bisbenzyl [60] fullerene adducts for efficient organic solar cells

S Huang, G Zhang, NS Knutson, MT Fontana… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells have been based mostly on conjugated polymers and the classic
fullerene derivative PCBM and are characterized by modest open circuit voltages (Voc) …