Analyzing the efficiency, stability and cost potential for fullerene-free organic photovoltaics in one figure of merit

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%

(2017) Baobing Fan et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

9.73% Efficiency Nonfullerene All Organic Small Molecule Solar Cells with Absorption-Complementary Donor and Acceptor

(2017) Haijun Bin 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

Solar cell efficiency tables (version 50)

(2017) Martin A. Green et al.   PROGRESS IN PHOTOVOLTAICS

Abnormal strong burn-in degradation of highly efficient polymer solar cells caused by spinodal donor-acceptor demixing

(2017) Ning Li et al.   Nature Communications

Circumventing UV Light Induced Nanomorphology Disorder to Achieve Long Lifetime PTB7-Th:PCBM Based Solar Cells

(2017) Quan Liu et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Tuning Energy Levels without Negatively Affecting Morphology: A Promising Approach to Achieving Optimal Energetic Match and Efficient Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells

(2017) Jianquan Zhang et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Evaluation of Electron Donor Materials for Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cells via a Novel Figure of Merit

(2017) Jie Min et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Burn-in Free Nonfullerene-Based Organic Solar Cells

(2017) Nicola Gasparini 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

Washing away barriers

(2017) Ning Li et al.   Nature Energy

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

Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells: Five Core Technologies for Their Commercialization

(2016) Hongkyu Kang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

On the Efficiency Limit of Conjugated Polymer:Fullerene-Based Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2016) Markus C. Scharber   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2016) Wenchao Zhao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Design of Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-Based Small Molecules for Organic-Solar-Cell Applications

(2016) Ailing Tang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Light Harvesting for Organic Photovoltaics

(2016) Gordon J. Hedley et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

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

(2016) Chuanlang Zhan et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

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

Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells

(2016) Derya Baran et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

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

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

Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Use in Organic Solar Cells

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

An Electron Acceptor Challenging Fullerenes for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

(2015) Yuze Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Recent Advances in Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells

(2015) Luyao Lu et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Air-processed organic tandem solar cells on glass: toward competitive operating lifetimes

(2015) Jens Adams et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Air-processed polymer tandem solar cells with power conversion efficiency exceeding 10%

(2015) Ning Li 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

“All That Glisters Is Not Gold”: An Analysis of the Synthetic Complexity of Efficient Polymer Donors for Polymer Solar Cells

(2015) Riccardo Po et al.   MACROMOLECULES

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

(2015) Yu Zhong et al.   Nature Communications

Guidelines for Closing the Efficiency Gap between Hero Solar Cells and Roll-To-Roll Printed Modules

(2015) Luca Lucera et al.   Energy Technology

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: A Decade of Organic/Polymeric Photovoltaic Research

(2013) Letian Dou et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Recent Advances in Polymer Solar Cells: Realization of High Device Performance by Incorporating Water/Alcohol-Soluble Conjugated Polymers as Electrode Buffer Layer

(2013) Zhicai He et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

(2013) Alan J. Heeger   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Towards 15% energy conversion efficiency: a systematic study of the solution-processed organic tandem solar cells based on commercially available materials

(2013) Ning Li et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Efficiency of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

(2013) M.C. Scharber et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Molecular Design of Photovoltaic Materials for Polymer Solar Cells: Toward Suitable Electronic Energy Levels and Broad Absorption

(2012) Yongfang Li   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Small molecule semiconductors for high-efficiency organic photovoltaics

(2012) Yuze Lin et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Polymer-Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells

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