A materials physics perspective on structure–processing–function relations in blends of organic semiconductors

Z Peng, N Stingelin, H Ade, JJ Michels - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
During the past 30 years of research in organic electronics, the development of mechanistic
understanding of important structure–processing–performance interrelationships has been …

The bulk heterojunction in organic photovoltaic, photodetector, and photocatalytic applications

A Wadsworth, Z Hamid, J Kosco, N Gasparini… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organic semiconductors require an energetic offset in order to photogenerate free charge
carriers efficiently, owing to their inability to effectively screen charges. This is vitally …

[PDF][PDF] Application of crystallization kinetics strategy in morphology control of solar cells based on nonfullerene blends

Q Liang, Y Chang, C Liang, H Zhu, Z Guo… - Acta Phys.-Chim …, 2023 - whxb.pku.edu.cn
Owing to the advantages of broad absorption, semitransparency, and largearea solution
processing, organic solar cells based on a nonfullerene blend system have attracted wide …

Quantitative relations between interaction parameter, miscibility and function in organic solar cells

L Ye, H Hu, M Ghasemi, T Wang, BA Collins, JH Kim… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Although it is known that molecular interactions govern morphology formation and purity of
mixed domains of conjugated polymer donors and small-molecule acceptors, and thus …

Recent advances in morphology optimization for organic photovoltaics

H Lee, C Park, DH Sin, JH Park, K Cho - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics are an important part of a next‐generation energy‐harvesting
technology that uses a practically infinite pollutant‐free energy source. They have the …

Molecular Engineering and Morphology Control of Polythiophene: Nonfullerene Acceptor Blends for High‐Performance Solar Cells

Q Wang, Y Qin, M Li, L Ye… - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the advances in organic photovoltaics (OPVs), the development of low‐cost and easily
accessible polymer donors is of vital importance for OPV commercialization. Polythiophene …

Recent advances of non-fullerene, small molecular acceptors for solution processed bulk heterojunction solar cells

FE Ala'a, JP Sun, IG Hill, GC Welch - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic, planar, and electron deficient small molecules were utilized as acceptors in the first
reported bilayer heterojunction solar cells, however, current state-of-the-art organic …

π-Bridge-Independent 2-(Benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazol-4-ylmethylene)malononitrile-Substituted Nonfullerene Acceptors for Efficient Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

K Wang, Y Firdaus, M Babics, F Cruciani… - Chemistry of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Molecular acceptors are promising alternatives to fullerenes (eg, PC61/71BM) in the
fabrication of high-efficiency bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. While solution-processed …

Blending donors with different molecular weights: an efficient strategy to resolve the conflict between coherence length and intermixed phase in polymer/nonfullerene …

Q Liang, Z Hu, J Yao, Z Wu, Z Ding, K Zhao, X Jiao… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Long coherence lengths (CLs) of crystals and proper intermixed phase amount guarantee
charge transport and exciton dissociate efficiently, which is crucial for organic solar cells …

Predicting the photocurrent–composition dependence in organic solar cells

X Rodríguez-Martínez, E Pascual-San-José… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The continuous development of improved non-fullerene acceptors and deeper knowledge of
the fundamental mechanisms governing performance underpin the vertiginous increase in …