A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z Xiao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

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 …

High fill factor organic solar cells with increased dielectric constant and molecular packing density

X Zhang, C Li, J Xu, R Wang, J Song, H Zhang, Y Li… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
The fill factor (FF) of organic solar cells (OSCs), a critically important photovoltaic parameter,
is still sub-optimal, often less than 0.8. To further reduce the FF gaps with regard to the …

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 …

Efficient organic solar cell with 16.88% efficiency enabled by refined acceptor crystallization and morphology with improved charge transfer and transport properties

L Zhu, M Zhang, G Zhou, T Hao, J Xu… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐layered organic solar cells (OSCs) using nonfullerene acceptors have reached 16%
efficiency. Such a breakthrough has inspired new sparks for the development of the next …

Benzothiadiazole-based polymer donors

P Cong, Z Wang, Y Geng, Y Meng, C Meng, L Chen… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
As the most classic electron-accepting building block, 2, 1, 3-benzothiadiazole (BT) and the
derived structures have achieved great success to construct photovoltaic materials …

Wide-gap non-fullerene acceptor enabling high-performance organic photovoltaic cells for indoor applications

Y Cui, Y Wang, J Bergqvist, H Yao, Y Xu, B Gao… - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
Organic photovoltaic cells are potential candidates to drive low power consumption off-grid
electronics for indoor applications. However, their power conversion efficiency is still limited …

Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

C Yan, S Barlow, Z Wang, H Yan, AKY Jen… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) are currently a major focus of research in the development
of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells (OSCs). In contrast to the widely used fullerene …

Next-generation organic photovoltaics based on non-fullerene acceptors

P Cheng, G Li, X Zhan, Y Yang - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
Over the past three years, a particularly exciting and active area of research within the field
of organic photovoltaics has been the use of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). Compared …

Toward the application of high frequency electromagnetic wave absorption by carbon nanostructures

Q Li, Z Zhang, L Qi, Q Liao, Z Kang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With the booming development of electronic information technology, the problems caused
by electromagnetic (EMs) waves have gradually become serious, and EM wave absorption …