A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z Xiao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

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 …

The role of charge recombination to triplet excitons in organic solar cells

AJ Gillett, A Privitera, R Dilmurat, A Karki, D Qian… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The use of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) in organic solar cells has led to power
conversion efficiencies as high as 18%. However, organic solar cells are still less efficient …

A molecular interaction–diffusion framework for predicting organic solar cell stability

M Ghasemi, N Balar, Z Peng, H Hu, Y Qin, T Kim… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Rapid increase in the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs) has been
achieved with the development of non-fullerene small-molecule acceptors (NF-SMAs) …

Eco-friendly polymer solar cells: Advances in green-solvent processing and material design

S Lee, D Jeong, C Kim, C Lee, H Kang, HY Woo… - Acs Nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite the recent breakthroughs of polymer solar cells (PSCs) exhibiting a power
conversion efficiency of over 17%, toxic and hazardous organic solvents such as chloroform …

Quantitative relations between interaction parameter, miscibility and function in organic solar cells

L Ye, H Hu, M Ghasemi, T Wang, BA Collins, JH Kim… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Although it is known that molecular interactions govern morphology formation and purity of
mixed domains of conjugated polymer donors and small-molecule acceptors, and thus …

Unraveling the correlations between mechanical properties, miscibility, and film microstructure in all‐polymer photovoltaic cells

K Zhou, K Xian, Q Qi, M Gao, Z Peng… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid development of low bandgap polymer acceptors has promoted the efficiency up
to≈ 17% for all‐polymer solar cells (all‐PSCs). Nevertheless, the polymeric blend film, core …

Mechanical properties of organic semiconductors for stretchable, highly flexible, and mechanically robust electronics

SE Root, S Savagatrup, AD Printz, D Rodriquez… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Mechanical deformability underpins many of the advantages of organic semiconductors. The
mechanical properties of these materials are, however, diverse, and the molecular …

Solvent additives: key morphology‐directing agents for solution‐processed organic solar cells

C McDowell, M Abdelsamie, MF Toney… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics (OPV) have the advantage of possible fabrication by energy‐efficient
and cost‐effective deposition methods, such as solution processing. Solvent additives can …

Morphology control in high‐efficiency all‐polymer solar cells

K Zhou, K Xian, L Ye - InfoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
All‐polymer solar cells (All‐PSCs) have attracted tremendous research interest in the recent
decade due to the great potentials in stretchable electronic applications in terms of long …