Donor–acceptor conjugated polymers based on multifused ladder-type arenes for organic solar cells

JS Wu, SW Cheng, YJ Cheng, CS Hsu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Harvesting solar energy from sunlight to generate electricity is considered as one of the most
important technologies to address the future sustainability of humans. Polymer solar cells …

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 …

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 …

Pushing the limits of flexibility and stretchability of solar cells: A review

E Dauzon, X Sallenave, C Plesse… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging forms of soft, flexible, and stretchable electronics promise to revolutionize the
electronics industries of the future offering radically new products that combine multiple …

Benzo [1, 2‐b: 4, 5‐b′] difuran based polymer donor for high‐efficiency (> 16%) and stable organic solar cells

X Li, X Duan, Z Liang, L Yan, Y Yang… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular design of polymer donors is of vital importance for obtaining high‐performance
organic solar cells (OSCs). At present, much of the important progress in power conversion …

Improved charge transport and absorption coefficient in indacenodithieno [3, 2‐b] thiophene‐based ladder‐type polymer leading to highly efficient polymer solar cells

YX Xu, CC Chueh, HL Yip, FZ Ding, YX Li… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The development of donor-acceptor (DA) based bulkheterojunction (BHJ) polymer solar
cells (PSCs) has made significant progress in the past decade. In particular, power …

How the structural deviations on the backbone of conjugated polymers influence their optoelectronic properties and photovoltaic performance

CL Chochos, SA Choulis - Progress in polymer science, 2011 - Elsevier
The design of novel conjugated polymers with appropriate frontier orbital energy levels, low
band gap (LBG) and suitable carrier transport properties are needed to improve the power …

A quantum-chemical perspective into low optical-gap polymers for highly-efficient organic solar cells

C Risko, MD McGehee, JL Brédas - Chemical Science, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The recent and rapid enhancement in power conversion efficiencies of organic-based, bulk-
heterojunction solar cells has been a consequence of both improved materials design and …

Design of terpolymers as electron donors for highly efficient polymer solar cells

TE Kang, KH Kim, BJ Kim - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Remarkable progress has been realized in improving the power conversion efficiency (PCE)
of polymer solar cells (PSCs) over the past few years, raising the possibility of their …

A chlorinated nonacyclic carbazole-based acceptor affords over 15% efficiency in organic solar cells

TW Chen, KL Peng, YW Lin, YJ Su, KJ Ma… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this contribution, a dithienocyclopentacarbazole (DTC)-based and two dithieno [3, 2-b]
thiophenecyclopentacarbazole (DTTC)-based non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) named DTC …