What is the role of non-fullerene acceptor symmetry in polymer solar cell efficiency?

Dimerized small-molecule acceptors enable efficient and stable organic solar cells

(2023) Cheng Sun et al.   Joule

Reconciling models of interfacial state kinetics and device performance in organic solar cells: impact of the energy offsets on the power conversion efficiency

(2022) Mohammed Azzouzi et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Monolithic perovskite/organic tandem solar cells with 23.6% efficiency enabled by reduced voltage losses and optimized interconnecting layer

(2022) Wei Chen et al.   Nature Energy

Realizing 17.5% Efficiency Flexible Organic Solar Cells via Atomic-Level Chemical Welding of Silver Nanowire Electrodes

(2022) Guang Zeng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology

(2022) Lei Zhu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Over 16% efficiency all-polymer solar cells by sequential deposition

(2022) Bangbang Li et al.   Science China-Chemistry

Crystallography, Packing Mode, and Aggregation State of Chlorinated Isomers for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

(2022) Hanjian Lai et al.   CCS Chemistry

Achieving 19% Power Conversion Efficiency in Planar‐Mixed Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Using a Pseudosymmetric Electron Acceptor

(2022) Wei Gao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Renewed Prospects for Organic Photovoltaics

(2022) Guichuan Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

The Crystalline Behavior and Device Function of Nonfullerene Acceptors in Organic Solar Cells

(2022) Jinqiu Xu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

High‐Efficiency and Mechanically Robust All‐Polymer Organic Photovoltaic Cells Enabled by Optimized Fibril Network Morphology

(2022) Lijiao Ma et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Barrier to charge generation

(2022) Thuc-Quyen Nguyen   Nature Energy

A History and Perspective of Non‐Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

(2021) Ardalan Armin et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

High-Efficiency All-Polymer Solar Cells with Poly-Small-Molecule Acceptors Having π-Extended Units with Broad Near-IR Absorption

(2021) Ning Su et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Naphthalenothiophene imide-based polymer exhibiting over 17% efficiency

(2021) Gongya Zhang et al.   Joule

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

Progress in Upscaling Organic Photovoltaic Devices

(2021) Gabriel Bernardo et al.   Advanced Energy 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

Efficient Hole Transfer via Delocalized Excited State in Small Molecular Acceptor: A Comparative Study on Photodynamics of PM6:Y6 and PM6:ITIC Organic Photovoltaic Blends

(2021) Shuyan Liang et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Crumple Durable Ultraflexible Organic Solar Cells with an Excellent Power‐per‐Weight Performance

(2021) Wei Song et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

17.6%‐Efficient Quasiplanar Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells from a Chlorinated 3D Network Acceptor

(2021) Hui Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Non-fullerene acceptors with direct and indirect hexa-fluorination afford >17% efficiency in polymer solar cells

(2021) Guoping Li et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

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

(2021) Alexander J. Gillett et al.   NATURE

Dilution effect for highly efficient multiple-component organic solar cells

(2021) Lijian Zuo et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Tuning the antiaromatic character and charge transport of pentalene-based antiaromatic compounds by substitution

(2021) Jianglin Wu et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Asymmetric Non-Fullerene Small-Molecule Acceptors toward High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

(2021) Dongxu Li et al.   ACS Central Science

Highly efficient organic photovoltaics with enhanced stability through the formation of doping-induced stable interfaces

(2020) Zhi Jiang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Future of Flexible Organic Solar Cells

(2020) Kenjiro Fukuda et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Fluorinating π‐Extended Molecular Acceptors Yields Highly Connected Crystal Structures and Low Reorganization Energies for Efficient Solar Cells

(2020) Steven M. Swick et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Readily Accessible Benzo[d]thiazole Polymers for Nonfullerene Solar Cells with >16% Efficiency and Potential Pitfalls

(2020) Liang-Wen Feng et al.   ACS Energy Letters

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

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

Improving Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by A Near-Infrared-Absorbing Moisture Barrier

(2020) Qin Hu et al.   Joule

Optimization Requirements of Efficient Polythiophene:Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2020) Ziqi Liang et al.   Joule

Fine-Tuning Energy Levels via Asymmetric End Groups Enables Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 17%

(2020) Zhenghui Luo et al.   Joule

Robust metal ion-chelated polymer interfacial layer for ultraflexible non-fullerene organic solar cells

(2020) Fei Qin et al.   Nature Communications

Reducing Voltage Losses in the A-DA′D-A Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells

(2020) Jun Yuan et al.   Chem

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

Hybridization of Local Exciton and Charge-Transfer States Reduces Non-Radiative Voltage Losses in Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Flurin Eisner et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Highly Efficient Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cells Operate at Near Zero Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital Offsets

(2019) Shuixing Li 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

Comprehensive Investigation and Analysis of Bulk-Heterojunction Microstructure of High-Performance PCE11:PCBM Solar Cells

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

High Exciton Diffusion Coefficients in Fused Ring Electron Acceptor Films

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

Simple and Versatile Non-Fullerene Acceptor Based on Benzothiadiazole and Rhodanine for Organic Solar Cells

(2019) Jongho Ahn et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Asymmetrical Ladder-Type Donor-Induced Polar Small Molecule Acceptor to Promote Fill Factors Approaching 77% for High-Performance Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells

(2018) Wei Gao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

An efficient non-fullerene acceptor based on central and peripheral naphthalene diimides

(2018) Pedada S. Rao et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Enhancing Polymer Photovoltaic Performance via Optimized Intramolecular Ester-Based Noncovalent Sulfur···Oxygen Interactions

(2018) Jianhua Chen et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Next-generation organic photovoltaics based on non-fullerene acceptors

(2018) Pei Cheng et al.   Nature Photonics

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

(2018) Jianquan Zhang et al.   Nature Energy

Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

(2018) Cenqi Yan et al.   Nature Reviews Materials

Measuring the competition between bimolecular charge recombination and charge transport in organic solar cells under operating conditions

(2018) Michael C. Heiber et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Closely packed, low reorganization energy π-extended postfullerene acceptors for efficient polymer solar cells

(2018) Steven M. Swick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fused Nonacyclic Electron Acceptors for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2017) Shuixing Dai et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

Efficient Charge Transfer and Fine-Tuned Energy Level Alignment in a THF-Processed Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cell with 11.3% Efficiency

(2016) Zhong Zheng et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

All-Polymer Solar Cell Performance Optimized via Systematic Molecular Weight Tuning of Both Donor and Acceptor Polymers

(2016) Nanjia Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High-Performance Electron Acceptor with Thienyl Side Chains for Organic Photovoltaics

(2016) Yuze Lin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor

(2016) Sarah Holliday et al.   Nature Communications

Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force

(2016) Jing Liu et al.   Nature Energy

An Electron Acceptor Challenging Fullerenes for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2015) Yuze Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics

(2015) Sarah Holliday et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Competition between recombination and extraction of free charges determines the fill factor of organic solar cells

(2015) Davide Bartesaghi et al.   Nature Communications

Are hot charge transfer states the primary cause of efficient free-charge generation in polymer:fullerene organic photovoltaic devices? A kinetic Monte Carlo study

(2014) Matthew L. Jones et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Layer-by-Layer Solution-Processed Low-Bandgap Polymer-PC61BM Solar Cells with High Efficiency

(2014) Pei Cheng et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Strong Internal and External Luminescence as Solar Cells Approach the Shockley–Queisser Limit

(2012) Owen D. Miller et al.   IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics

Quantitative analysis of lattice disorder and crystallite size in organic semiconductor thin films

(2011) Jonathan Rivnay et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B