Recent progress in the design of fused-ring non-fullerene acceptors─ relations between molecular structure and optical, electronic, and photovoltaic properties

B Schweda, M Reinfelds, P Hofstadler… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Organic solar cells are on the dawn of the next era. The change of focus toward non-
fullerene acceptors has introduced an enormous amount of organic n-type materials and …

Small-molecule electron acceptors for efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells

Z Zhang, J Yuan, Q Wei, Y Zou - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The development of organic electron acceptor materials is one of the key factors for realizing
high performance organic solar cells. Compared to traditional fullerene acceptor materials …

Extension of indacenodithiophene backbone conjugation enables efficient asymmetric A–D–A type non-fullerene acceptors

J Song, C Li, L Ye, C Koh, Y Cai, D Wei… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel strategy involving judiciously fusing one thiophene/thieno [3, 2-b] thiophene on only
one side of an indacenodithiophene (IDT) unit to extend IDT backbone conjugation was …

A ligand-free direct heteroarylation approach for benzodithiophenedione-based simple small molecular acceptors toward high efficiency polymer solar cells

Z Wu, Y Chen, L Zhang, D Yuan, R Qiu… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of nonfullerene acceptors has accelerated the improvement in the power
conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of polymer solar cells (PSCs) in the past five years. However …

TD-DFT benchmark for UV-visible spectra of fused-ring electron acceptors using global and range-separated hybrids

A Ali, MI Rafiq, Z Zhang, J Cao, R Geng… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Non-fullerene acceptors, especially acceptor–donor–acceptor structured fused-ring electron
acceptors (FREAs), have attracted widespread attention in organic solar cells because of …

Engineering of W-shaped benzodithiophenedione-based small molecular acceptors with improved optoelectronic properties for high efficiency organic solar cells

EU Rashid, NMA Hadia, J Iqbal, RF Mehmood… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In the current study, with the objective to improve the overall performance of organic solar
cells, seven new W-shaped small molecular acceptors–were developed theoretically by the …

Silicon and oxygen synergistic effects for the discovery of new high-performance nonfullerene acceptors

Y Qin, H Chen, J Yao, Y Zhou, Y Cho, Y Zhu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In organic electronics, an aromatic fused ring is a basic unit that provides π-electrons to
construct semiconductors and governs the device performance. The main challenge in …

Impact of the siloxane-terminated side chain on photovoltaic performances of the dithienylbenzodithiophene–difluorobenzotriazole-based wide band gap polymer …

H Jiang, F Pan, L Zhang, X Zhou, Z Wang… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
To thoroughly disclose the role of the siloxane-terminated side chain with different
substituent positions, three difluorobenzotriazole–dithienylbenzodithiophene (FTAZ–BDTT) …

Quantum Modification of Indacenodithieno[3,2-b]thiophene-Based Non-fullerene Acceptor Molecules for Organic Solar Cells of High Efficiency

FA Aloufi, RF Halawani, B Jamoussi, AK Hajri… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In order to enhance the efficacy of organic solar cells, six new three-dimensional small
donor molecules (IT-SM1 to IT-SM6) have been computationally designed by modifying the …

Significantly enhanced electron transport of a nonfullerene acceptor in a blend film with a high hole mobility polymer of high molecular weight: thick-film nonfullerene …

Z Wang, H Jiang, X Liu, J Liang, L Zhang… - Journal of materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Overcoming fill factor (FF) decay in thick fullerene active layers has been demonstrated with
high hole mobility (μh) polymers. However, this issue remains a challenge for thick active …