To Fluorinate or Not to Fluorinate in Organic Solar Cells: Achieving a Higher PCE of 15.2% when the Donor Polymer is Halogen‐Free

High‐Performance Noncovalently Fused‐Ring Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Noncovalent Intramolecular Interactions and End‐Group Engineering

(2021) Xin Zhang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Systematic Merging of Nonfullerene Acceptor π-Extension and Tetrafluorination Strategies Affords Polymer Solar Cells with >16% Efficiency

(2021) Guoping Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

54 cm 2 Large‐Area Flexible Organic Solar Modules with Efficiency Above 13%

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Regioregular Narrow‐Bandgap n‐Type Polymers with High Electron Mobility Enabling Highly Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells

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Ultrafast Kinetics Investigation of a Fluorinated-Benzothiadiazole Polymer with an Increased Excited State Transition Dipole Moment Applied in Organic Solar Cells

(2021) Pingping Gong et al.   ACS Applied Energy Materials

Insights into Excitonic Dynamics of Terpolymer-Based High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells: Enhancing the Yield of Charge Separation States

(2020) Jianfeng Li et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

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Recent Progress in Chlorinated Organic Photovoltaic Materials

(2020) Huifeng Yao et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Single‐Junction Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Approaching 18% Efficiency

(2020) Yong Cui et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

High‐Performance Fluorinated Fused‐Ring Electron Acceptor with 3D Stacking and Exciton/Charge Transport

(2020) Shuixing Dai et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Progress of the key materials for organic solar cells

(2020) Yang Tong et al.   Science China-Chemistry

Cathode engineering with perylene-diimide interlayer enabling over 17% efficiency single-junction organic solar cells

(2020) Jia Yao et al.   Nature Communications

Solution‐Processed Polymer Solar Cells with over 17% Efficiency Enabled by an Iridium Complexation Approach

(2020) Tao Wang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Tailoring Regioisomeric Structures of π-Conjugated Polymers Containing Monofluorinated π-Bridges for Highly Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2020) Baobing Fan et al.   ACS Energy Letters

High‐Performance All‐Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by n‐Type Polymers with an Ultranarrow Bandgap Down to 1.28 eV

(2020) Kui Feng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Crystallography, Morphology, Electronic Structure, and Transport in Non-Fullerene/Non-Indacenodithienothiophene Polymer:Y6 Solar Cells

(2020) Weigang Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A-DA′D-A non-fullerene acceptors for high-performance organic solar cells

(2020) Qingya Wei et al.   Science China-Chemistry

Phthalimide Polymer Donor Guests Enable over 17% Efficient Organic Solar Cells via Parallel‐Like Ternary and Quaternary Strategies

(2020) Weichao Zhang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Unifying Charge Generation, Recombination, and Extraction in Low‐Offset Non‐Fullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells

(2020) Akchheta Karki et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Adding a Third Component with Reduced Miscibility and Higher LUMO Level Enables Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells

(2020) Ruijie Ma et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Importance of Optimal Crystallinity and Hole Mobility of BDT‐Based Polymer Donor for Simultaneous Enhancements of V oc , J sc , and FF in Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2020) Jin Su Park et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Random terpolymer based on thiophene-thiazolothiazole unit enabling efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells

(2020) Jingnan Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Long-range exciton diffusion in molecular non-fullerene acceptors

(2020) Yuliar Firdaus et al.   Nature Communications

Self-Assembled Monolayer Enables Hole Transport Layer-Free Organic Solar Cells with 18% Efficiency and Improved Operational Stability

(2020) Yuanbao Lin et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Single-Component Non-halogen Solvent-Processed High-Performance Organic Solar Cell Module with Efficiency over 14%

(2020) Sheng Dong et al.   Joule

Large area organic photovoltaic modules fabricated on a 30 cm by 20 cm substrate with a power conversion efficiency of 9.5%

(2020) Cheng-Yu Tsai et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Organic Solar Cells—The Path to Commercial Success

(2020) Moritz Riede et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

On Optoelectronic Processes in Organic Solar Cells: From Opaque to Transparent

(2020) Nora Schopp et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Fluorination Effects on Indacenodithienothiophene Acceptor Packing and Electronic Structure, End-Group Redistribution, and Solar Cell Photovoltaic Response

(2019) Thomas J. Aldrich et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Fused Benzothiadiazole: A Building Block for n‐Type Organic Acceptor to Achieve High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Jun Yuan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

High-Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by an n-Type Polymer Based on a Fluorinated Imide-Functionalized Arene

(2019) Huiliang Sun et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Isomers of Dithienocyclopentapyrene‐Based Non‐Fullerene Electron Acceptors: Configuration Effect on Photoelectronic Properties

(2019) Jianglin Wu et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

14.7% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Cells Enabled by Active Materials with a Large Electrostatic Potential Difference

(2019) Huifeng Yao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

17% Efficient Organic Solar Cells Based on Liquid Exfoliated WS 2 as a Replacement for PEDOT:PSS

(2019) Yuanbao Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photovoltaic Blend Microstructure for High Efficiency Post-Fullerene Solar Cells. To Tilt or Not To Tilt?

(2019) Gang Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

5H-dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]pyran-5-one unit yields efficient wide-bandgap polymer donors

(2019) Jinfeng Liu et al.   Science Bulletin

Thiolactone copolymer donor gifts organic solar cells a 16.72% efficiency

(2019) Ji Xiong et al.   Science Bulletin

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

(2018) Long Ye et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors

(2018) Jianhui Hou et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Central dicyanomethylene-substituted unsymmetrical squaraines and their application in organic solar cells

(2018) Jianglin Wu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Material insights and challenges for non-fullerene organic solar cells based on small molecular acceptors

(2018) Jianquan Zhang et al.   Nature Energy

Morphology Control Enables Efficient Ternary Organic Solar Cells

(2018) Yuanpeng Xie et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Performance, Morphology, and Charge Recombination Correlations in Ternary Squaraine Solar Cells

(2018) Yao Chen et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Naphthobistriazole-based wide bandgap donor polymers for efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells: Significant fine-tuning absorption and energy level by backbone fluorination

(2018) Dongsheng Tang et al.   Nano Energy

Aggregation control in natural brush-printed conjugated polymer films and implications for enhancing charge transport

(2017) Gang Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evaluation of Electron Donor Materials for Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cells via a Novel Figure of Merit

(2017) Jie Min et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Roll-to-Roll Printed Large-Area All-Polymer Solar Cells with 5% Efficiency Based on a Low Crystallinity Conjugated Polymer Blend

(2017) Xiaodan Gu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Molecular Design of Benzodithiophene-Based Organic Photovoltaic Materials

(2016) Huifeng Yao et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Impact of Backbone Fluorination on π-Conjugated Polymers in Organic Photovoltaic Devices: A Review

(2016) Nicolas Leclerc et al.   Polymers

Asymmetrical squaraines for high-performance small-molecule organic solar cells with a short circuit current of over 12 mA cm−2

(2015) Yao Chen et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Dramatic performance enhancement for large bandgap thick-film polymer solar cells introduced by a difluorinated donor unit

(2015) Zhengke Li et al.   Nano Energy

Efficient, Large Area, and Thick Junction Polymer Solar Cells with Balanced Mobilities and Low Defect Densities

(2014) Ardalan Armin et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Synergistic Effect of Fluorination on Molecular Energy Level Modulation in Highly Efficient Photovoltaic Polymers

(2013) Maojie Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Poly(3-hexylthiophene): synthetic methodologies and properties in bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2012) Assunta Marrocchi et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Exciton diffusion length in narrow bandgap polymers

(2012) Oleksandr V. Mikhnenko et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Self-Assembly from the Gas-Phase: Design and Implementation of Small-Molecule Chromophore Precursors with Large Nonlinear Optical Responses

(2009) David Frattarelli et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY