Eco-friendly polymer solar cells: advances in green-solvent processing and material design

S Lee, D Jeong, C Kim, C Lee, H Kang, HY Woo… - Acs Nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite the recent breakthroughs of polymer solar cells (PSCs) exhibiting a power
conversion efficiency of over 17%, toxic and hazardous organic solvents such as chloroform …

Design principles and synergistic effects of chlorination on a conjugated backbone for efficient organic photovoltaics: a critical review

GP Kini, SJ Jeon, DK Moon - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The pursuit of low‐cost, flexible, and lightweight renewable power resources has led to
outstanding advancements in organic solar cells (OSCs). Among the successful design …

[HTML][HTML] Over 18% ternary polymer solar cells enabled by a terpolymer as the third component

W Peng, Y Lin, SY Jeong, Z Genene, A Magomedov… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract “Ternary blending” and “random terpolymerization” strategies have both proven
effective for enhancing the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). However, reports on …

A chlorinated copolymer donor demonstrates a 18.13% power conversion efficiency

J Qin, L Zhang, C Zuo, Z Xiao, Y Yuan… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The rapid development of low-bandgap (LBG) nonfullerene acceptors and wide-bandgap
(WBG) copolymer donors in recent years has boosted the power conversion efficiency (PCE) …

All-small-molecule organic solar cells with an ordered liquid crystalline donor

H Chen, D Hu, Q Yang, J Gao, J Fu, K Yang, H He… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
The crystallinity and intermolecular interaction among small molecules are enhanced in
order to achieve reasonable phase segregation between the donor and acceptor in all-small …

Optimized active layer morphologies via ternary copolymerization of polymer donors for 17.6% efficiency organic solar cells with enhanced fill factor

X Guo, Q Fan, J Wu, G Li, Z Peng, W Su… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Regulating molecular structure to optimize the active layer morphology is of considerable
significance for improving the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) in organic solar cells …

Benzotriazole-Based Acceptor and Donors, Coupled with Chlorination, Achieve a High VOC of 1.24 V and an Efficiency of 10.5% in Fullerene-Free Organic Solar …

A Tang, W Song, B Xiao, J Guo, J Min, Z Ge… - Chemistry of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Herein, a simple “Same-A-Strategy”(SAS), constructing p-type and n-type photovoltaic
materials with the same electron-accepting (A) unit of benzotriazole, is adopted to initially …

Low-cost materials for organic solar cells

F Zhao, J Zhou, D He, C Wang, Y Lin - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Solution processible organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted much attention as one of the
most promising candidates for sustainable energy techniques over the past two decades. So …

Recent advances in molecular design of functional conjugated polymers for high-performance polymer solar cells

CC Chueh, AKY Jen - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Continuous improvements have been made to drive the impressive progress of solution-
processed bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells (BHJ PSCs), in which the rationally …

Chlorination: an effective strategy for high‐performance organic solar cells

Q Zhao, J Qu, F He - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This work summarizes recent developments in polymer solar cells (PSCs) prepared by a
chlorination strategy. The intrinsic property of chlorine atoms, the progress of chlorinated …