Fine-Tuning of Molecular Packing and Energy Level through Methyl Substitution Enabling Excellent Small Molecule Acceptors for Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency up to 12.54%

Optimisation of processing solvent and molecular weight for the production of green-solvent-processed all-polymer solar cells with a power conversion efficiency over 9%

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Small-Molecule Acceptor Based on the Heptacyclic Benzodi(cyclopentadithiophene) Unit for Highly Efficient Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells

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Exploiting Noncovalently Conformational Locking as a Design Strategy for High Performance Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor Used in Polymer Solar Cells

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Molecular Optimization Enables over 13% Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells

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

Achieving over 10% efficiency in a new acceptor ITTC and its blends with hexafluoroquinoxaline based polymers

(2017) Zhenzhen Zhang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Terminal π–π stacking determines three-dimensional molecular packing and isotropic charge transport in an A–π–A electron acceptor for non-fullerene organic solar cells

(2017) Guangchao Han et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

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

(2016) Liang Gao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

Pronounced Effects of a Triazine Core on Photovoltaic Performance-Efficient Organic Solar Cells Enabled by a PDI Trimer-Based Small Molecular Acceptor

(2016) Yuwei Duan 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

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

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

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

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

Dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]pyridin-5(4H)-one based D–A type copolymers with wide bandgaps of up to 2.05 eV to achieve solar cell efficiencies of up to 7.33%

(2016) Wei Gao et al.   Chemical Science

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

(2016) Haijun Bin et al.   Nature Communications

Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

(2016) Jingbo Zhao et al.   Nature Energy

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

Single-Junction Organic Solar Cells Based on a Novel Wide-Bandgap Polymer with Efficiency of 9.7%

(2015) Lijun Huo 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

A planar electron acceptor for efficient polymer solar cells

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

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

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

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

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

(2014) Yuhang Liu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

Side-chain engineering of high-efficiency conjugated polymer photovoltaic materials

(2014) Zhi-Guo Zhang et al.   Science China-Chemistry

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

(2013) Alan J. Heeger   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A geometrical correction for the inter- and intra-molecular basis set superposition error in Hartree-Fock and density functional theory calculations for large systems

(2012) Holger Kruse et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Nonplanar Perylene Diimides as Potential Alternatives to Fullerenes in Organic Solar Cells

(2012) Sridhar Rajaram et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Materials and Applications for Large Area Electronics: Solution-Based Approaches

(2010) Ana Claudia Arias et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

A consistent and accurate ab initio parametrization of density functional dispersion correction (DFT-D) for the 94 elements H-Pu

(2010) Stefan Grimme et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Recombination in polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

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

Development of Novel Conjugated Donor Polymers for High-Efficiency Bulk-Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices

(2009) Junwu Chen et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Polymer solar cells with enhanced open-circuit voltage and efficiency

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