A High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cell Enabled by the Strong Intramolecular Electron Push-Pull Effect of the Nonfullerene Acceptor

Surpassing 10% Efficiency Benchmark for Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells by Scalable Coating in Air from Single Nonhalogenated Solvent

(2018) Long Ye et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Miscibility-Function Relations in Organic Solar Cells: Significance of Optimal Miscibility in Relation to Percolation

(2018) Long Ye et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Fused Nonacyclic Electron Acceptors for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

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

A Wide-Bandgap Donor Polymer for Highly Efficient Non-fullerene Organic Solar Cells with a Small Voltage Loss

(2017) Shangshang Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Molecular Optimization Enables over 13% Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells

(2017) Wenchao Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Modulating the Molecular Packing and Nanophase Blending via a Random Terpolymerization Strategy toward 11% Efficiency Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells

(2017) Shanshan Chen et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Significant Influence of the Methoxyl Substitution Position on Optoelectronic Properties and Molecular Packing of Small-Molecule Electron Acceptors for Photovoltaic Cells

(2017) Sunsun Li et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Recent progress in non-fullerene small molecule acceptors in organic solar cells (OSCs)

(2017) Wangqiao Chen et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Mapping Polymer Donors toward High-Efficiency Fullerene Free Organic Solar Cells

(2016) Yuze Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Design and Synthesis of a Low Bandgap Small Molecule Acceptor for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Huifeng Yao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

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

(2016) Sunsun Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Molecular Design of Benzodithiophene-Based Organic Photovoltaic Materials

(2016) Huifeng Yao et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

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

Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with >1 V open circuit voltages

(2016) D. Baran et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

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

Side-Chain Isomerization on an n-type Organic Semiconductor ITIC Acceptor Makes 11.77% High Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells

(2016) Yankang Yang 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

11.4% Efficiency non-fullerene polymer solar cells with trialkylsilyl substituted 2D-conjugated polymer as donor

(2016) Haijun Bin et al.   Nature Communications

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

Fullerene-free polymer solar cell based on a polythiophene derivative with an unprecedented energy loss of less than 0.5 eV

(2016) Hao Zhang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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

A Large-Bandgap Conjugated Polymer for Versatile Photovoltaic Applications with High Performance

(2015) Maojie Zhang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

An Electron Acceptor Challenging Fullerenes for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2015) Yuze Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A perylene diimide (PDI)-based small molecule with tetrahedral configuration as a non-fullerene acceptor for organic solar cells

(2015) Wangqiao Chen et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Quantifying Losses in Open-Circuit Voltage in Solution-Processable Solar Cells

(2015) Jizhong Yao et al.   Physical Review Applied

Improvement of open-circuit voltage and photovoltaic properties of 2D-conjugated polymers by alkylthio substitution

(2014) Chaohua Cui et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Electronic Structure and Transition Energies in Polymer–Fullerene Bulk Heterojunctions

(2014) Robert A. Street et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

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 polymer tandem solar cell with 10.6% power conversion efficiency

(2013) Jingbi You et al.   Nature Communications

Effects of Solubilizing Group Modification in Fullerene Bis-Adducts on Normal and Inverted Type Polymer Solar Cells

(2012) Ki-Hyun Kim et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Polymer solar cells

(2012) Gang Li et al.   Nature Photonics

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

Polymer-Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2010) Christoph J. Brabec et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Indene−C60Bisadduct: A New Acceptor for High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells

(2010) Youjun He et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Recombination in polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

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

Relating the open-circuit voltage to interface molecular properties of donor:acceptor bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2010) Koen Vandewal et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Polymer solar cells with enhanced open-circuit voltage and efficiency

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

Bulk heterojunction solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100%

(2009) Sung Heum Park et al.   Nature Photonics

Charge extraction analysis of charge carrier densities in a polythiophene/fullerene solar cell: Analysis of the origin of the device dark current

(2008) C. G. Shuttle et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Processing Additives for Improved Efficiency from Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2008) Jae Kwan Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY