Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

Crystal engineering in organic photovoltaic acceptors: a 3D network approach

H Lai, F He - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The power conversion efficiency of organic solar cell (OSC) devices has surpassed 18%
rapidly. In order to further promote OSC development, it is necessary to understand the …

A rare case of brominated small molecule acceptors for high-efficiency organic solar cells

H Liang, X Bi, H Chen, T He, Y Lin, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Given that bromine possesses similar properties but extra merits of easily synthesizing and
polarizing comparing to homomorphic fluorine and chlorine, it is quite surprising very rare …

High efficiency (15.8%) all-polymer solar cells enabled by a regioregular narrow bandgap polymer acceptor

H Fu, Y Li, J Yu, Z Wu, Q Fan, F Lin… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Despite the significant progresses made in all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) recently, the
relatively low short-circuit current density (J sc) and large energy loss are still quite difficult to …

Precisely controlling the position of bromine on the end group enables well‐regular polymer acceptors for all‐polymer solar cells with efficiencies over 15%

Z Luo, T Liu, R Ma, Y Xiao, L Zhan, G Zhang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in the development of polymerized A–D–A‐type small‐molecule acceptors
(SMAs) have promoted the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of all‐polymer solar cells (all …

Systematic merging of nonfullerene acceptor π-extension and tetrafluorination strategies affords polymer solar cells with> 16% efficiency

G Li, X Zhang, LO Jones, JM Alzola… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The end-capping group (EG) is the essential electron-withdrawing component of
nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs). To …

An NIR‐II‐Emissive Photosensitizer for Hypoxia‐Tolerant Photodynamic Theranostics

L Li, C Shao, T Liu, Z Chao, H Chen, F Xiao… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As a common feature in a majority of malignant tumors, hypoxia has become the Achilles'
heel of photodynamic therapy (PDT). The development of type‐I photosensitizers that show …

Low-cost synthesis of small molecule acceptors makes polymer solar cells commercially viable

H Fu, J Yao, M Zhang, L Xue, Q Zhou, S Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The acceptor-donor-acceptor (A–D–A) or A–DA'D–A structured small molecule acceptors
(SMAs) have triggered substantial progress for polymer solar cells (PSCs). However, the …

Non-fullerene acceptors with direct and indirect hexa-fluorination afford> 17% efficiency in polymer solar cells

G Li, LW Feng, S Mukherjee, LO Jones… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The rational molecular design of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) in organic solar cells
(OSCs) can profoundly influence the photovoltaic (OPV) performance. To date, NFA …

Recent research progress of all-polymer solar cells based on PSMA-type polymer acceptors

T Wang, M Chen, R Sun, J Min - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) have garnered significant interest due to their unique
advantages, including significantly improved device stability and mechanical stretchability …