Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of all-polymer solar cells

C Lee, S Lee, GU Kim, W Lee, BJ Kim - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) consisting of polymer donors (P Ds) and polymer
acceptors (P As) have drawn tremendous research interest in recent years. It is due to not …

Nonfullerene acceptor molecules for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

G Zhang, J Zhao, PCY Chow, K Jiang, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The bulk-heterojunction blend of an electron donor and an electron acceptor material is the
key component in a solution-processed organic photovoltaic device. In the past decades, a p …

Critical review of the molecular design progress in non-fullerene electron acceptors towards commercially viable organic solar cells

A Wadsworth, M Moser, A Marks, MS Little… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Fullerenes have formed an integral part of high performance organic solar cells over the last
20 years, however their inherent limitations in terms of synthetic flexibility, cost and stability …

9.73% efficiency nonfullerene all organic small molecule solar cells with absorption-complementary donor and acceptor

H Bin, Y Yang, ZG Zhang, L Ye… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In the last two years, polymer solar cells (PSCs) developed quickly with n-type organic
semiconductor (n-OSs) as acceptor. In contrast, the research progress of nonfullerene …

Charge carrier recombination in organic solar cells

CM Proctor, M Kuik, TQ Nguyen - Progress in Polymer Science, 2013 - Elsevier
Solution deposited bulk heterojunction organic solar cells are viewed as one of the most
promising alternative energy sources because of their ease of processing and their potential …

Non-fullerene small molecule acceptors based on perylene diimides

Z Liu, Y Wu, Q Zhang, X Gao - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Great advances in the subfield of non-fullerene acceptors have been achieved in the last
few years. Perylene diimides are among the most investigated due to their excellent electron …

Slip-stacked perylenediimides as an alternative strategy for high efficiency nonfullerene acceptors in organic photovoltaics

PE Hartnett, A Timalsina, HSSR Matte… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Perylenediimide (PDI)-based acceptors offer a potential replacement for fullerenes in bulk-
heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs). The most promising efforts have …

A potential perylene diimide dimer‐based acceptor material for highly efficient solution‐processed non‐fullerene organic solar cells with 4.03% efficiency

X Zhang, Z Lu, L Ye, C Zhan, J Hou, S Zhang… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Great progress has been made on solution-processed, bulkheterojunction (BHJ) fullerene-
based organic solar cells (OSCs), and the reported power conversion efficiency (PCE) …

Side-chain engineering of high-efficiency conjugated polymer photovoltaic materials

ZG Zhang, Y Li - Science China Chemistry, 2015 - Springer
In recent years, conjugated polymers have attracted great attention in the application as
photovoltaic donor materials in polymer solar cells (PSCs). Broad absorption, lower-energy …

Aggregation in a high-mobility n-type low-bandgap copolymer with implications on semicrystalline morphology

R Steyrleuthner, M Schubert, I Howard… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We explore the photophysics of P (NDI2OD-T2), a high-mobility and air-stable n-type
donor/acceptor polymer. Detailed steady-state UV–vis and photoluminescence (PL) …