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 …

Material perceptions and advances in molecular heteroacenes for organic solar cells

A Mishra - Energy & Environmental Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of A–D–A type heteroacenes for bulk-heterojunction solar cells has
gained immense interest in the last 5–6 years due to their synthetic accessibility via new …

Realizing over 13% efficiency in green‐solvent‐processed nonfullerene organic solar cells enabled by 1, 3, 4‐thiadiazole‐based wide‐bandgap copolymers

X Xu, T Yu, Z Bi, W Ma, Y Li, Q Peng - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Two novel wide‐bandgap copolymers, PBDT‐TDZ and PBDTS‐TDZ, are developed based
on 1, 3, 4‐thiadiazole (TDZ) and benzo [1, 2‐b: 4, 5‐b′] dithiophene (BDT) building blocks …

Toward predicting efficiency of organic solar cells via machine learning and improved descriptors

H Sahu, W Rao, A Troisi, H Ma - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To design efficient materials for organic photovoltaics (OPVs), it is essential to identify the
largest number of parameters that control their properties and build a model using these …

Series of multifluorine substituted oligomers for organic solar cells with efficiency over 9% and fill factor of 0.77 by combination thermal and solvent vapor annealing

JL Wang, KK Liu, J Yan, Z Wu, F Liu… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis of a family of multifluorine substituted oligomers and the
corresponding polymer that have the same backbones but different conjugation lengths and …

Designing promising molecules for organic solar cells via machine learning assisted virtual screening

H Sahu, F Yang, X Ye, J Ma, W Fang… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Navigating chemical space for organic photovoltaics (OPVs) is in high demand for further
increasing the device efficiency, which can be accelerated through virtual screening of a …

Impact of side-chain engineering on the A-π-D-π-A type SM-BF1 donor molecule for bulk heterojunction and their photovoltaic performance: A DFT approach

SJ Akram, J Iqbal, RF Mehmood, S Iqbal, YA El-Badry… - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A hot topic in the field of photovoltaics is to minimize the energy loss during exciton
dissociation by maximizing the balance between the acceptors and donors in the light …

Molecular electron acceptors for efficient fullerene-free organic solar cells

S Li, Z Zhang, M Shi, CZ Li, H Chen - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Nowadays, organic solar cells (OSCs) with efficiencies over 10% have been achieved
through the elaborate design of electron donors and fullerene acceptors. However, the …

Quantum chemical study of end-capped acceptor and bridge on triphenyl diamine based molecules to enhance the optoelectronic properties of organic solar cells

K Jaffar, ZM Elqahtani, QQ Afzal, M Ans, S Riaz… - Polymer, 2022 - Elsevier
This research project focuses on quantum chemical study of triphenyl diamine based
molecules and DFT analysis of reference XSln847 and nine designed molecules to boost …

A non-fullerene acceptor with a fully fused backbone for efficient polymer solar cells with a high open-circuit voltage

S Li, W Liu, CZ Li, TK Lau, X Lu, M Shi… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, we design and synthesize a perylene diimide derivative with a fully fused backbone,
FITP, which possesses an elevated lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level and high …