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 …

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 …

Mechanical properties of organic semiconductors for stretchable, highly flexible, and mechanically robust electronics

SE Root, S Savagatrup, AD Printz, D Rodriquez… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Mechanical deformability underpins many of the advantages of organic semiconductors. The
mechanical properties of these materials are, however, diverse, and the molecular …

Controlling molecular doping in organic semiconductors

IE Jacobs, AJ Moulé - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The field of organic electronics thrives on the hope of enabling low‐cost, solution‐processed
electronic devices with mechanical, optoelectronic, and chemical properties not available …

A review of grazing incidence small‐and wide‐angle x‐ray scattering techniques for exploring the film morphology of organic solar cells

A Mahmood, JL Wang - Solar RRL, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, a rapid evolution of organic solar cells (OSCs) has been achieved by virtue
of structural design of active layer materials and optimization of film morphology. Along with …

Bulk heterojunction solar cells: morphology and performance relationships

Y Huang, EJ Kramer, AJ Heeger, GC Bazan - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
With the hope of solving the present energy crisis and associated environmental issues,
much research has been focused on solar cells that can harvest energy directly from …

Self-driving laboratory for polymer electronics

A Vriza, H Chan, J Xu - Chemistry of Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
Owing to the chemical pluripotency and viscoelastic nature of electronic polymers, polymer
electronics have shown unique advances in many emerging applications such as skin-like …

Ultrafast long-range charge separation in organic semiconductor photovoltaic diodes

S Gélinas, A Rao, A Kumar, SL Smith, AW Chin, J Clark… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Understanding the charge-separation mechanism in organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) could
facilitate optimization of their overall efficiency. Here we report the time dependence of the …

Rational design of high performance conjugated polymers for organic solar cells

H Zhou, L Yang, W You - Macromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
The research on the polymer-based solar cells (PSCs) has attracted an increasing amount
of attention in recent years because PSCs pose potential advantages over mainstream …

Charge photogeneration in organic solar cells

TM Clarke, JR Durrant - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
In recent years, organic solar cells utilizing π-conjugated polymers have attracted
widespread interest in both the academic and, increasingly, the commercial communities …