Charge-transfer electronic states in organic solar cells

V Coropceanu, XK Chen, T Wang, Z Zheng… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In organic solar cells, the charge-transfer (CT) electronic states that form at the interface
between the electron-donor (D) and electron-acceptor (A) materials have a crucial role in …

Computational approaches for organic semiconductors: from chemical and physical understanding to predicting new materials

V Bhat, CP Callaway, C Risko - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
While a complete understanding of organic semiconductor (OSC) design principles remains
elusive, computational methods─ ranging from techniques based in classical and quantum …

Modeling and simulations of polymers: a roadmap

TE Gartner III, A Jayaraman - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
Molecular modeling and simulations are invaluable tools for the polymer science and
engineering community. These computational approaches enable predictions and provide …

Chain conformations and phase behavior of conjugated polymers

B Kuei, ED Gomez - Soft matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Conjugated polymers may play an important role in various emerging optoelectronic
applications because they combine the chemical versatility of organic molecules and the …

Organic photovoltaics: Relating chemical structure, local morphology, and electronic properties

T Wang, G Kupgan, JL Brédas - Trends in Chemistry, 2020 - cell.com
Substantial enhancements in the efficiencies of bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells
(OSCs) have come from largely trial-and-error-based optimizations of the morphology of the …

Entanglements in P3HT and their influence on thin‐film mechanical properties: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations

NR Tummala, C Risko, C Bruner… - Journal of Polymer …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their inherent mechanical flexibility and stretchability, organic‐based electronic
devices have garnered a great deal of academic and industrial interest. Here, molecular …

Transfer learned designer polymers for organic solar cells

J Munshi, W Chen, TY Chien… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials have been examined extensively over the past two
decades for solar cell applications because of the potential for device flexibility, low …

Relating molecular morphology to charge mobility in semicrystalline conjugated polymers

ML Jones, DM Huang, B Chakrabarti… - The Journal of Physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The molecular-level origins of the effects of annealing temperature and molecular weight on
hole mobility in P3HT are elucidated using coarse-grained molecular dynamics, quantum …

Impact of the Nature of the Side‐Chains on the Polymer‐Fullerene Packing in the Mixed Regions of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

T Wang, MK Ravva, JL Brédas - Advanced Functional Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer‐fullerene packing in mixed regions of a bulk heterojunction solar cell is expected to
play a major role in exciton‐dissociation, charge‐separation, and charge‐recombination …

Modelling of P3HT: PCBM interface using coarse-grained forcefield derived from accurate atomistic forcefield

TT To, S Adams - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
To understand the morphological evolution of P3HT: PCBM bulk heterojunction during
thermal treatment process, we employed coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics (MD) …