Trends in the electronic and geometric structure of non-fullerene based acceptors for organic solar cells

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

Fullerene-free small molecule organic solar cells with a high open circuit voltage of 1.15 V

(2016) Wang Ni et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

A four-directional non-fullerene acceptor based on tetraphenylethylene and diketopyrrolopyrrole functionalities for efficient photovoltaic devices with a high open-circuit voltage of 1.18 V

(2016) Anushri Rananaware et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

A nonfullerene acceptor for wide band gap polymer based organic solar cells

(2016) Jicheng Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

A 9,9′-spirobi[9H-fluorene]-cored perylenediimide derivative and its application in organic solar cells as a non-fullerene acceptor

(2016) Jinduo Yi et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

π-Bridge-Independent 2-(Benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazol-4-ylmethylene)malononitrile-Substituted Nonfullerene Acceptors for Efficient Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2016) Kai Wang et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Electron Acceptors Based on α-Substituted Perylene Diimide (PDI) for Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Donglin Zhao et al.   CHEMISTRY OF 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

1,1,4,4-Tetracyanobuta-1,3-diene Substituted Diketopyrrolopyrroles: An Acceptor for Solution Processable Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2016) Yuvraj Patil et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Does the Donor-π-Acceptor Character of Dyes Improve the Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells?

(2016) Chung Man Ip et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Photovoltaics: Promotion by Off-Diagonal Vibronic Couplings and Entropy Increase

(2016) Yao Yao et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Charge Separation and Recombination at Polymer–Fullerene Heterojunctions: Delocalization and Hybridization Effects

(2016) Gabriele D’Avino et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

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

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

Design of efficient molecular organic light-emitting diodes by a high-throughput virtual screening and experimental approach

(2016) Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

An efficient nonfullerene acceptor for all-small-molecule solar cells with versatile processability in environmentally benign solvents

(2016) Oh Kyu Kwon et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Ring-fusion as a perylenediimide dimer design concept for high-performance non-fullerene organic photovoltaic acceptors

(2016) Patrick E. Hartnett et al.   Chemical Science

Fluorination-enabled optimal morphology leads to over 11% efficiency for inverted small-molecule organic solar cells

(2016) Dan Deng et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2016) Sarah Holliday et al.   Nature Communications

Phthalimide end-capped thienoisoindigo and diketopyrrolopyrrole as non-fullerene molecular acceptors for organic solar cells

(2016) Pierre Josse et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Perylenediimides as non-fullerene acceptors in bulk-heterojunction solar cells (BHJSCs)

(2016) Fernando Fernández-Lázaro et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

A simple small molecule as an acceptor for fullerene-free organic solar cells with efficiency near 8%

(2016) Miaomiao Li et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Non-fullerene acceptor with low energy loss and high external quantum efficiency: towards high performance polymer solar cells

(2016) Yongxi Li et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

A simple perylene diimide derivative with a highly twisted geometry as an electron acceptor for efficient organic solar cells

(2016) Shuixing Li et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Use in Organic Solar Cells

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

Fine-Tuning the 3D Structure of Nonfullerene Electron Acceptors Toward High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells

(2015) Haiyan Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Nonfullerene Small Molecule Acceptor with 3D Interlocking Geometry Enabling Efficient Organic Solar Cells

(2015) Jaewon Lee 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 selenophenyl bridged perylene diimide dimer as an efficient solution-processable small molecule acceptor

(2015) Xin Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Low-Bandgap Small Molecules as Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors Composed of Benzothiadiazole and Diketopyrrolopyrrole for All Organic Solar Cells

(2015) Jae Woong Jung et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

A planar electron acceptor for efficient polymer solar cells

(2015) Yao Wu et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

High-performance fullerene-free polymer solar cells with 6.31% efficiency

(2015) Yuze Lin et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

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

(2015) Jingbo Zhao et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Dependence of the Structure and Electronic Properties of D–A–D Based Molecules on the D/A Ratio and the Strength of the Acceptor Moiety

(2015) Priya Johari et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Design Rules for Organic Donor–Acceptor Heterojunctions: Pathway for Charge Splitting and Detrapping

(2015) Carl Poelking et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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

Models of charge pair generation in organic solar cells

(2015) Sheridan Few et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Phonon-assisted ultrafast charge separation in the PCBM band structure

(2015) Samuel L. Smith et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

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

(2015) Yu Zhong et al.   Nature Communications

High Performance Organic Solar Cells Based on a Twisted Bay-Substituted Tetraphenyl Functionalized Perylenediimide Electron Acceptor

(2015) Yunhao Cai et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

New advances in non-fullerene acceptor based organic solar cells

(2015) Chuanlang Zhan et al.   RSC Advances

Nonfullerene acceptors based on extended fused rings flanked with benzothiadiazolylmethylenemalononitrile for polymer solar cells

(2015) Huitao Bai et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Solution-processed boron subphthalocyanine derivatives as acceptors for organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells

(2015) Bernd Ebenhoch et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

An electron acceptor based on indacenodithiophene and 1,1-dicyanomethylene-3-indanone for fullerene-free organic solar cells

(2015) Huitao Bai et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

A Tetraperylene Diimides Based 3D Nonfullerene Acceptor for Efficient Organic Photovoltaics

(2015) Shi-Yong Liu et al.   Advanced Science

Direct Optical Generation of Long-Range Charge-Transfer States in Organic Photovoltaics

(2014) Haibo Ma et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2014) Zhenghao Mao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Integrated Molecular, Interfacial, and Device Engineering towards High-Performance Non-Fullerene Based Organic Solar Cells

(2014) Yue Zang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Organic Photovoltaics: Elucidating the Ultra-Fast Exciton Dissociation Mechanism in Disordered Materials

(2014) Henry M. Heitzer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Perylene–Diimide Based Non-Fullerene Solar Cells with 4.34% Efficiency through Engineering Surface Donor/Acceptor Compositions

(2014) Zhenhuan Lu et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Modulating the Exciton Dissociation Rate by up to More than Two Orders of Magnitude by Controlling the Alignment of LUMO + 1 in Organic Photovoltaics

(2014) Haibo Ma et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Beyond Fullerenes: Design of Nonfullerene Acceptors for Efficient Organic Photovoltaics

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

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

(2014) Patrick E. Hartnett et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Helical Perylene Diimide Electron Acceptors

(2014) Yu Zhong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Predicting with confidence the efficiency of new dyes in dye sensitized solar cells

(2014) Chung Man Ip et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Ultrafast charge separation and nongeminate electron–hole recombination in organic photovoltaics

(2014) Samuel L. Smith et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

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

(2014) Yuhang Liu et al.   Nature Communications

8.4% efficient fullerene-free organic solar cells exploiting long-range exciton energy transfer

(2014) Kjell Cnops et al.   Nature Communications

A Twisted Dimeric Perylene Diimide Electron Acceptor for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

(2014) Yuze Lin et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics: an emerging horizon

(2014) Yuze Lin et al.   Materials Horizons

How quasi-free holes and electrons are generated in organic photovoltaic interfaces

(2013) Alessandro Troisi   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Ultrafast Charge Separation in Organic Photovoltaics Enhanced by Charge Delocalization and Vibronically Hot Exciton Dissociation

(2013) Hiroyuki Tamura et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Determining the optimum morphology in high-performance polymer-fullerene organic photovoltaic cells

(2013) Gordon J. Hedley et al.   Nature Communications

What Makes Fullerene Acceptors Special as Electron Acceptors in Organic Solar Cells and How to Replace Them

(2012) Tao Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Small molecule semiconductors for high-efficiency organic photovoltaics

(2012) Yuze Lin et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Organic non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics

(2011) Prashant Sonar et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Why Holes and Electrons Separate So Well in Polymer/Fullerene Photovoltaic Cells

(2011) David P. McMahon et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

The Harvard Clean Energy Project: Large-Scale Computational Screening and Design of Organic Photovoltaics on the World Community Grid

(2011) Johannes Hachmann et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters