Donor polymer design enables efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells

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Non-Fullerene Polymer Solar Cells Based on Alkylthio and Fluorine Substituted 2D-Conjugated Polymers Reach 9.5% Efficiency

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A Facile Planar Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor for As-Cast Polymer Solar Cells with 8.71% Efficiency

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Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

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

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Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Use in Organic Solar Cells

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High-Performance Non-Fullerene Polymer Solar Cells Based on a Pair of Donor-Acceptor Materials with Complementary Absorption Properties

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Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with 8.5% Efficiency Enabled by a New Highly Twisted Electron Acceptor Dimer

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Rigidifying Nonplanar Perylene Diimides by Ring Fusion Toward Geometry-Tunable Acceptors for High-Performance Fullerene-Free Solar Cells

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Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Improved Vertical Donor-Acceptor Compositional Gradient Via an Inverted Off-Center Spinning Method

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High-efficiency non-fullerene organic solar cells enabled by a difluorobenzothiadiazole-based donor polymer combined with a properly matched small molecule acceptor

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

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A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics

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Terthiophene-Based D–A Polymer with an Asymmetric Arrangement of Alkyl Chains That Enables Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

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Efficient inverted polymer solar cells employing favourable molecular orientation

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Single-junction polymer solar cells with high efficiency and photovoltage

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Shadows of anyons and the entanglement structure of topological phases

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

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Impact of charge transport on current–voltage characteristics and power-conversion efficiency of organic solar cells

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Designing Efficient Non-Fullerene Acceptors by Tailoring Extended Fused-Rings with Electron-Deficient Groups

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

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Azadipyrromethene-Based Zn(II) Complexes as Nonplanar Conjugated Electron Acceptors for Organic Photovoltaics

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A Tetraphenylethylene Core-Based 3D Structure Small Molecular Acceptor Enabling Efficient Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

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Semi-crystalline photovoltaic polymers with efficiency exceeding 9% in a ∼300 nm thick conventional single-cell device

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Slip-Stacked Perylenediimides as an Alternative Strategy for High Efficiency Nonfullerene Acceptors in Organic Photovoltaics

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Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Helical Perylene Diimide Electron Acceptors

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The influence of molecular orientation on organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

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

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Controlling Solution-Phase Polymer Aggregation with Molecular Weight and Solvent Additives to Optimize Polymer-Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

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25th Anniversary Article: Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Understanding the Mechanism of Operation

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Bay-linked perylene bisimides as promising non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

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Effect of Fluorination on the Properties of a Donor–Acceptor Copolymer for Use in Photovoltaic Cells and Transistors

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Fluorine Substituents Reduce Charge Recombination and Drive Structure and Morphology Development in Polymer Solar Cells

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Polymer solar cells with enhanced fill factors

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Towards rational design of organic electron acceptors for photovoltaics: a study based on perylenediimide derivatives

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A polymer tandem solar cell with 10.6% power conversion efficiency

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Soft x-ray scattering facility at the Advanced Light Source with real-time data processing and analysis

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Absolute Measurement of Domain Composition and Nanoscale Size Distribution Explains Performance in PTB7:PC71BM Solar Cells

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Structural Order in Bulk Heterojunction Films Prepared with Solvent Additives

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Fluorine Substituted Conjugated Polymer of Medium Band Gap Yields 7% Efficiency in Polymer−Fullerene Solar Cells

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Synthesis of Fluorinated Polythienothiophene-co-benzodithiophenes and Effect of Fluorination on the Photovoltaic Properties

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Solution-processed small-molecule solar cells with 6.7% efficiency

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Rylene and Related Diimides for Organic Electronics

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Synthetic Control of Structural Order inN-Alkylthieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione-Based Polymers for Efficient Solar Cells

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Nanomorphology of Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Thin Films Probed with Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering

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Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cell Applications

(2009) Yen-Ju Cheng et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Polymer solar cells with enhanced open-circuit voltage and efficiency

(2009) Hsiang-Yu Chen et al.   Nature Photonics