High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells: Critical Factors that Affect Complex Multi-Length Scale Morphology and Device Performance

Vertical Phase Separation in Small Molecule:Polymer Blend Organic Thin Film Transistors Can Be Dynamically Controlled

(2016) Kui Zhao et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Fullerene Additives Convert Ambipolar Transport to p-Type Transport while Improving the Operational Stability of Organic Thin Film Transistors

(2016) Michael J. Ford et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Medium Bandgap Polymer Donor and Narrow Bandgap Organic Semiconductor Acceptor

(2016) Liang Gao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Small Molecule/Polymer Blend Organic Transistors with Hole Mobility Exceeding 13 cm2 V−1 s−1

(2016) Alexandra F. Paterson et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells with over 11% Efficiency and Excellent Thermal Stability

(2016) Wenchao Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Energy-Level Modulation of Small-Molecule Electron Acceptors to Achieve over 12% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Sunsun Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Manipulation of Domain Purity and Orientational Ordering in High Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Long Ye et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

More than Conformational “Twisting” or “Coplanarity”: Molecular Strategies for Designing High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Chuanlang Zhan et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Non-fullerene polymer solar cells based on a selenophene-containing fused-ring acceptor with photovoltaic performance of 8.6%

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

Three-Bladed Rylene Propellers with Three-Dimensional Network Assembly for Organic Electronics

(2016) Dong Meng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Covalently Bound Clusters of Alpha-Substituted PDI—Rival Electron Acceptors to Fullerene for Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Qinghe Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

(2016) Haijun Bin 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

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

(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

Low Band Gap Polymer Solar Cells With Minimal Voltage Losses

(2016) Chuanfei Wang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Charge Creation and Recombination in Multi-Length Scale Polymer:Fullerene BHJ Solar Cell Morphologies

(2016) Subhrangsu Mukherjee et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Breaking the 10% Efficiency Barrier in Organic Photovoltaics: Morphology and Device Optimization of Well-Known PBDTTT Polymers

(2016) Shaoqing Zhang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Low Open-Circuit Voltage Loss in Solution-Processed Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Sachetan M. Tuladhar et al.   ACS Energy Letters

Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

(2016) Jingbo Zhao et al.   Nature Energy

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

(2016) Jing Liu et al.   Nature Energy

Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Use in Organic Solar Cells

(2015) Christian B. Nielsen et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Enhanced Efficiency in Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cell by Incorporating Fine-designed Donor and Acceptor Materials

(2015) Long Ye et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

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

(2015) Haoran Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2015) Ye-Jin Hwang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2015) Hongliang Zhong et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A High Efficiency Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cell with Optimized Crystalline Organizations

(2015) Oh Kyu Kwon et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2015) Jiang Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Manipulating Aggregation and Molecular Orientation in All-Polymer Photovoltaic Cells

(2015) Long Ye et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

An Electron Acceptor Challenging Fullerenes for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2015) Yuze Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dynamics, Miscibility, and Morphology in Polymer:Molecule Blends: The Impact of Chemical Functionality

(2015) Khanh Do et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Characterizing morphology in organic systems with resonant soft X-ray scattering

(2015) Joshua H. Carpenter et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY AND RELATED PHENOMENA

Beyond Fullerenes: Designing Alternative Molecular Electron Acceptors for Solution-Processable Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics

(2015) Geneviève Sauvé et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

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

A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics

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

In Situ Characterization of Polymer–Fullerene Bilayer Stability

(2015) Deborah Leman et al.   MACROMOLECULES

2D-Conjugated Benzodithiophene-Based Polymer Acceptor: Design, Synthesis, Nanomorphology, and Photovoltaic Performance

(2015) Long Ye et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Molecular helices as electron acceptors in high-performance bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2015) Yu Zhong et al.   Nature Communications

Significance of Average Domain Purity and Mixed Domains on the Photovoltaic Performance of High-Efficiency Solution-Processed Small-Molecule BHJ Solar Cells

(2015) Subhrangsu Mukherjee et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Key components to the recent performance increases of solution processed non-fullerene small molecule acceptors

(2015) Seth M. McAfee et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Toward reliable and accurate evaluation of polymer solar cells based on low band gap polymers

(2015) Long Ye et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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

(2014) Subhrangsu Mukherjee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Mobility-Controlled Performance of Thick Solar Cells Based on Fluorinated Copolymers

(2014) Wentao Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Selecting a Donor Polymer for Realizing Favorable Morphology in Efficient Non-fullerene Acceptor-based Solar Cells

(2014) Long Ye et al.   Small

In Situ Morphology Studies of the Mechanism for Solution Additive Effects on the Formation of Bulk Heterojunction Films

(2014) Lee J. Richter et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics: an emerging horizon

(2014) Yuze Lin et al.   Materials Horizons

How High Local Charge Carrier Mobility and an Energy Cascade in a Three-Phase Bulk Heterojunction Enable >90% Quantum Efficiency

(2013) Timothy M. Burke et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

On the role of intermixed phases in organic photovoltaic blends

(2013) Paul Westacott et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Diodes

(2013) S. Gelinas et al.   SCIENCE

Solution-Processed Small Molecule-Polymer Blend Organic Thin-Film Transistors with Hole Mobility Greater than 5 cm2/Vs

(2012) Jeremy Smith et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

From Binary to Ternary Solvent: Morphology Fine-tuning of D/A Blends in PDPP3T-based Polymer Solar Cells

(2012) Long Ye et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The relative importance of domain size, domain purity and domain interfaces to the performance of bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaics

(2012) Benjamin P. Lyons et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Nika: software for two-dimensional data reduction

(2012) Jan Ilavsky   JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Polymer-Fullerene Miscibility: A Metric for Screening New Materials for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

(2012) Neil D. Treat et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Design, Application, and Morphology Study of a New Photovoltaic Polymer with Strong Aggregation in Solution State

(2012) Deping Qian et al.   MACROMOLECULES

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

(2012) E. Gann et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

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

(2012) Brian A. Collins et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Side-Chain Tunability of Furan-Containing Low-Band-Gap Polymers Provides Control of Structural Order in Efficient Solar Cells

(2011) Alan T. Yiu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Polymer Crystallization of Partially Miscible Polythiophene/Fullerene Mixtures Controls Morphology

(2011) Derek R. Kozub et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Hierarchical Nanomorphologies Promote Exciton Dissociation in Polymer/Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2011) Wei Chen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Molecular Miscibility of Polymer−Fullerene Blends

(2010) Brian A. Collins et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

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

(2010) Sufal Swaraj et al.   NANO LETTERS

High-Performance Polymer-Small Molecule Blend Organic Transistors

(2009) Richard Hamilton et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Structure and Properties of Small Molecule−Polymer Blend Semiconductors for Organic Thin Film Transistors

(2008) Jihoon Kang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY