Poly(3-hexylthiophene)-based non-fullerene solar cells achieve high photovoltaic performance with small energy loss

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

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Nonfullerene Small Molecular Acceptors with a Three-Dimensional (3D) Structure for Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Nailiang Qiu 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

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

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

A Thieno[3,4-b]thiophene-Based Non-fullerene Electron Acceptor for High-Performance Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Feng Liu 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

Achievement of High V oc of 1.02 V for P3HT-Based Organic Solar Cell Using a Benzotriazole-Containing Non-Fullerene Acceptor

(2016) Bo Xiao et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

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

(2016) Jing Liu et al.   Nature Energy

Oligomer Molecules for Efficient Organic Photovoltaics

(2015) Yuze Lin et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Use in Organic Solar Cells

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

Fluoro-Substituted n-Type Conjugated Polymers for Additive-Free All-Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with High Power Conversion Efficiency of 6.71%

(2015) Jae Woong Jung et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Difluorobenzoxadiazole Building Block for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2015) Jingbo Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

7.7% Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells

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

An Electron Acceptor Challenging Fullerenes for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2015) Yuze Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

All-Polymer Solar Cells Based on Absorption-Complementary Polymer Donor and Acceptor with High Power Conversion Efficiency of 8.27%

(2015) Liang Gao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A planar electron acceptor for efficient polymer solar cells

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

High Quantum Efficiencies in Polymer Solar Cells at Energy Losses below 0.6 eV

(2015) Weiwei Li 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

Deep Absorbing Porphyrin Small Molecule for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells with Very Low Energy Losses

(2015) Ke Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Efficient inverted polymer solar cells employing favourable molecular orientation

(2015) Varun Vohra et al.   Nature Photonics

Realizing over 10% efficiency in polymer solar cell by device optimization

(2015) Shaoqing Zhang et al.   Science China-Chemistry

High-efficiency polymer solar cells with small photon energy loss

(2015) Kazuaki Kawashima et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2015) Yu Zhong et al.   Nature Communications

Flexible, highly efficient all-polymer solar cells

(2015) Taesu Kim et al.   Nature Communications

Cooperative assembly of an active layer utilizing the synergistic effect of a functional fullerene triad as an acceptor for efficient P3HT-based PSCs

(2015) Yue Zhao et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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

(2014) Zhenghao Mao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2014) Yuhang Liu et al.   Nature Communications

Non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics: an emerging horizon

(2014) Yuze Lin et al.   Materials Horizons

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

(2013) Alan J. Heeger   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A fullerene dyad with a tri(octyloxy)benzene moiety induced efficient nanoscale active layer for the poly(3-hexylthiophene)-based bulk heterojunction solar cell applications

(2013) Pan Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

From lab to fab: how must the polymer solar cell materials design change? – an industrial perspective

(2013) Riccardo Po et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

A projection of commercial-scale organic photovoltaic module costs

(2013) Cara J. Mulligan et al.   SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS

Recent advances of non-fullerene, small molecular acceptors for solution processed bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2013) Ala'a F. Eftaiha et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

A Non-Fullerene Small Molecule as Efficient Electron Acceptor in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2012) Yan Zhou et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Manipulating the Morphology of P3HT–PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Blends with Solvent Vapor Annealing

(2012) Eric Verploegen et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Poly(3-hexylthiophene): synthetic methodologies and properties in bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2012) Assunta Marrocchi et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Enhanced power-conversion efficiency in polymer solar cells using an inverted device structure

(2012) Zhicai He et al.   Nature Photonics

Polymer solar cells

(2012) Gang Li et al.   Nature Photonics

Simultaneous Open-Circuit Voltage Enhancement and Short-Circuit Current Loss in Polymer: Fullerene Solar Cells Correlated by Reduced Quantum Efficiency for Photoinduced Electron Transfer

(2012) Daniele Di Nuzzo et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

P3HT:PCBM, Best Seller in Polymer Photovoltaic Research

(2011) Minh Trung Dang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiencies of 2.5% using Benzothiadiazole/Imide-Based Acceptors

(2011) Jason T. Bloking et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Non-Fullerene Acceptor-Based Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells: Engineering the Nanomorphology via Processing Additives

(2011) Guoqiang Ren et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Polythiophene:Perylene Diimide Solar Cells - the Impact of Alkyl-Substitution on the Photovoltaic Performance

(2011) Valentin Kamm et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Phenyl vs Alkyl Polythiophene: A Solar Cell Comparison Using a Vinazene Derivative as Acceptor

(2010) Claire H. Woo et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Solution processable low bandgap diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) based derivatives: novel acceptors for organic solar cells

(2010) Prashant Sonar et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Recombination in polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2010) Sarah R. Cowan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

A Small Molecule Non-fullerene Electron Acceptor for Organic Solar Cells

(2010) Paul E. Schwenn et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

The Energy of Charge-Transfer States in Electron Donor-Acceptor Blends: Insight into the Energy Losses in Organic Solar Cells

(2009) Dirk Veldman et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Strain and Hückel Aromaticity: Driving Forces for a Promising New Generation of Electron Acceptors in Organic Electronics

(2009) F. G. Brunetti et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

On the origin of the open-circuit voltage of polymer–fullerene solar cells

(2009) Koen Vandewal et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Control of the nanoscale crystallinity and phase separation in polymer solar cells

(2008) Chih-Wei Chu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Charge Carrier Formation in Polythiophene/Fullerene Blend Films Studied by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

(2008) Hideo Ohkita et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Polymer–Fullerene Composite Solar Cells

(2007) Barry C. Thompson et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION