Non‐Volatile Perfluorophenyl‐Based Additive for Enhanced Efficiency and Thermal Stability of Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells via Supramolecular Fluorinated Interactions

Achieving 16.68% efficiency ternary as-cast organic solar cells

(2021) Ruijie Ma et al.   Science China-Chemistry

Additive and High-Temperature Processing Boost the Photovoltaic Performance of Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells Fabricated with Blade Coating and Nonhalogenated Solvents

(2021) Youzhan Li et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Significantly Boosting Efficiency of Polymer Solar Cells by Employing a Nontoxic Halogen-Free Additive

(2021) Xingpeng Liu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

16% efficiency all-polymer organic solar cells enabled by a finely tuned morphology via the design of ternary blend

(2021) Tao Liu et al.   Joule

A Quinoxaline‐Based D–A Copolymer Donor Achieving 17.62% Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells

(2021) Can Zhu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

High‐Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics using Eutectic Acceptor Fibrils to Achieve Current Amplification

(2021) Ming Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells

(2021) Chao Li et al.   Nature Energy

Single‐Junction Organic Photovoltaic Cell with 19% Efficiency

(2021) Yong Cui et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Cold‐Aging and Solvent Vapor Mediated Aggregation Control toward 18% Efficiency Binary Organic Solar Cells

(2021) Chuanhang Guo et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Reduced non-radiative charge recombination enables organic photovoltaic cell approaching 19% efficiency

(2021) Pengqing Bi et al.   Joule

Synergistic Effects of Polymer Donor Backbone Fluorination and Nitrogenation Translate into Efficient Non-Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells

(2020) Zhixiong Cao et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Graphdiyne Derivative as Multifunctional Solid Additive in Binary Organic Solar Cells with 17.3% Efficiency and High Reproductivity

(2020) Le Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Barrierless Free Charge Generation in the High‐Performance PM6:Y6 Bulk Heterojunction Non‐Fullerene Solar Cell

(2020) Lorena Perdigón‐Toro et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

High Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells with Efficient Hole Transfer at Zero Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital Offset between Methylated Polymer Donor and Brominated Acceptor

(2020) Chenkai Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Simultaneous enhanced efficiency and thermal stability in organic solar cells from a polymer acceptor additive

(2020) Wenyan Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Impact of Noncovalent Sulfur–Fluorine Interaction Position on Properties, Structures, and Photovoltaic Performance in Naphthobisthiadiazole‐Based Semiconducting Polymers

(2020) Masahiko Saito et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Single‐Junction Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Approaching 18% Efficiency

(2020) Yong Cui et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

New Theoretical Insight into Fluorination and Fluorine–Fluorine Interactions as a Driving Force in Crystal Structures

(2020) Goran V. Janjić et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

Efficient Organic Solar Cell with 16.88% Efficiency Enabled by Refined Acceptor Crystallization and Morphology with Improved Charge Transfer and Transport Properties

(2020) Lei Zhu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Toward Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells via Halogenation on Polymer Acceptors

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

Low‐Bandgap Porphyrins for Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells: Materials, Morphology, and Applications

(2020) Ke Gao 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

Delocalization of exciton and electron wavefunction in non-fullerene acceptor molecules enables efficient organic solar cells

(2020) Guichuan Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

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

(2020) Jingnan Wu et al.   Nature Communications

Approaching 18% efficiency of ternary organic photovoltaics with wide bandgap polymer donor and well compatible Y6:Y6-1O as acceptor

(2020) Xiaoling Ma et al.   National Science Review

Over 17% Efficiency Binary Organic Solar Cells with Photoresponses Reaching 1000 nm Enabled by Selenophene-Fused Nonfullerene Acceptors

(2020) Feng Qi et al.   ACS Energy Letters

15% Efficiency Tandem Organic Solar Cell Based on a Novel Highly Efficient Wide‐Bandgap Nonfullerene Acceptor with Low Energy Loss

(2019) Gongchu Liu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Enabling low voltage losses and high photocurrent in fullerene-free organic photovoltaics

(2019) Jun Yuan et al.   Nature Communications

Enhanced π–π Interactions of Nonfullerene Acceptors by Volatilizable Solid Additives in Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2019) Runnan Yu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

High Exciton Diffusion Coefficients in Fused Ring Electron Acceptor Films

(2019) Sreelakshmi Chandrabose et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

Fluorinated Photovoltaic Materials for High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Qunping Fan et al.   Chemistry-An Asian Journal

Over 16% efficiency organic photovoltaic cells enabled by a chlorinated acceptor with increased open-circuit voltages

(2019) Yong Cui et al.   Nature Communications

Understanding the High Performance of over 15% Efficiency in Single‐Junction Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Akchheta Karki et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Control of Nanomorphology in Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cells by Lewis Acid Doping with Enhanced Photovoltaic Efficiency

(2019) Dongyang Zhang et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Tackling Energy Loss for High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells with Integrated Multiple Strategies

(2018) Lijian Zuo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fine-Tuning of Molecular Packing and Energy Level through Methyl Substitution Enabling Excellent Small Molecule Acceptors for Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency up to 12.54%

(2018) Zhenghui Luo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Design rules for minimizing voltage losses in high-efficiency organic solar cells

(2018) Deping Qian et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors

(2018) Jianhui Hou et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Synergistic effect of fluorination on both donor and acceptor materials for high performance non-fullerene polymer solar cells with 13.5% efficiency

(2018) Qunping Fan et al.   Science China-Chemistry

Ligand engineering on CdTe quantum dots in perovskite solar cells for suppressed hysteresis

(2018) Jia-Wen Xiao et al.   Nano Energy

How to determine optical gaps and voltage losses in organic photovoltaic materials

(2018) K. Vandewal et al.   Sustainable Energy & Fuels

Design and application of volatilizable solid additives in non-fullerene organic solar cells

(2018) Runnan Yu et al.   Nature Communications

Exploiting Noncovalently Conformational Locking as a Design Strategy for High Performance Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor Used in Polymer Solar Cells

(2017) Yahui Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Molecular Optimization Enables over 13% Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells

(2017) Wenchao Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Comparative Study of Thermal Stability, Morphology, and Performance of All-Polymer, Fullerene–Polymer, and Ternary Blend Solar Cells Based on the Same Polymer Donor

(2017) Taesu Kim et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Surface Layering and Supersaturation for Top-Down Nanostructural Development during Spin Coating of Polymer/Fullerene Thin Films

(2017) Wei-Ru Wu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

The Novel Additive 1-Naphthalenethiol Opens a New Processing Route to Efficiency-Enhanced Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Hong-Jyun Jhuo et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Molecular Lock: A Versatile Key to Enhance Efficiency and Stability of Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Pei Cheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A spirobifluorene and diketopyrrolopyrrole moieties based non-fullerene acceptor for efficient and thermally stable polymer solar cells with high open-circuit voltage

(2016) Shuixing Li et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

N-type polymers as electron extraction layers in hybrid perovskite solar cells with improved ambient stability

(2016) S. Shao et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

(2016) Jingbo Zhao et al.   Nature Energy

A Large-Bandgap Conjugated Polymer for Versatile Photovoltaic Applications with High Performance

(2015) Maojie Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

An Electron Acceptor Challenging Fullerenes for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2015) Yuze Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Diluting concentrated solution: a general, simple and effective approach to enhance efficiency of polymer solar cells

(2015) Pei Cheng et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

High-Performance Solution-Processed Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Based on Selenophene-Containing Perylene Bisimide Acceptor

(2015) Dong Meng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Fluorinated conjugated polymers in organic bulk heterojunction photovoltaic solar cells

(2015) Franck Meyer   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

High-efficiency polymer solar cells with small photon energy loss

(2015) Kazuaki Kawashima et al.   Nature Communications

Influence of Processing Parameters and Molecular Weight on the Morphology and Properties of High-Performance PffBT4T-2OD:PC71BM Organic Solar Cells

(2015) Wei Ma et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

A spiro-bifluorene based 3D electron acceptor with dicyanovinylene substitution for solution-processed non-fullerene organic solar cells

(2015) Debin Xia et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Impact of Solvent Additive on Carrier Transport in Polymer:Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells

(2015) Carr Hoi Yi Ho et al.   Advanced Materials Interfaces

Interplay of Solvent Additive Concentration and Active Layer Thickness on the Performance of Small Molecule Solar Cells

(2014) John A. Love et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Importance of Domain Purity and Molecular Packing in Efficient Solution-Processed Small-Molecule Solar Cells

(2014) Subhrangsu Mukherjee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

“Conformation Locked” Strong Electron-Deficient Poly(p-Phenylene Vinylene) Derivatives for Ambient-Stable n-Type Field-Effect Transistors: Synthesis, Properties, and Effects of Fluorine Substitution Position

(2014) Ting Lei et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Aggregation and morphology control enables multiple cases of high-efficiency polymer solar cells

(2014) Yuhang Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Morphological Stabilization by Supramolecular Perfluorophenyl-C60Interactions Leading to Efficient and Thermally Stable Organic Photovoltaics

(2013) Ming-Hung Liao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Using volatile additives to alter the morphology and performance of active layers in thin-film molecular photovoltaic devices incorporating bulk heterojunctions

(2013) Minh Trung Dang et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Binary additives synergistically boost the efficiency of all-polymer solar cells up to 3.45%

(2013) Pei Cheng et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Competition between Fullerene Aggregation and Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Crystallization upon Annealing of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2011) Wei-Ru Wu et al.   ACS Nano

Morphological Stabilization by In Situ Polymerization of Fullerene Derivatives Leading to Efficient, Thermally Stable Organic Photovoltaics

(2011) Yen-Ju Cheng et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Transient Optoelectronic Analysis of Charge Carrier Losses in a Selenophene/Fullerene Blend Solar Cell

(2011) Andrea Maurano et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Effects of Additives on the Morphology of Solution Phase Aggregates Formed by Active Layer Components of High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells

(2011) Sylvia J. Lou et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Substituent Effects in the Benzene Dimer are Due to Direct Interactions of the Substituents with the Unsubstituted Benzene

(2008) Steven E. Wheeler et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY