Article
Polymer Science
Guoping Zhang, Lihong Wang, Chaoyue Zhao, Yajie Wang, Ruiyu Hu, Jiaxu Che, Siying He, Wei Chen, Leifeng Cao, Zhenghui Luo, Mingxia Qiu, Shunpu Li, Guangye Zhang
Summary: This study improves the efficiency and fill factor of all-polymer solar cells through interfacial layer engineering, providing better potential for large-scale production of organic solar cells.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Fang-Chi Hsu, Yu-An Lin, Chi-Ping Li
Summary: The study presented a solution to the issue of organic film redissolution by introducing a solvent barrier layer, improving interfacial electrical properties and device performance. This method enhances device lifetime and light-soaking stability, making it significant for advancing the development of flexible/stretchable devices in wearable technology.
ORGANIC ELECTRONICS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Huazhe Liang, Xingqi Bi, Hongbin Chen, Tengfei He, Yi Lin, Yunxin Zhang, Kangqiao Ma, Wanying Feng, Zaifei Ma, Guankui Long, Chenxi Li, Bin Kan, Hongtao Zhang, Oleg A. Rakitin, Xiangjian Wan, Zhaoyang Yao, Yongsheng Chen
Summary: Given the ease of synthesis and polarization of bromine compared to homomorphic fluorine and chlorine, it is surprising that high-performance brominated small molecule acceptors are rare. This may be due to undesirable film morphologies caused by steric hindrance and excessive crystallinity. To overcome this, three acceptors were constructed with stepwise bromination on central units to enhance intermolecular packing, crystallinity, and dielectric constant without damaging favorable intermolecular packing through end groups. As a result, PM6:CH22-based binary organic solar cells achieved the highest efficiency of 19.06% for brominated acceptors, and a record-breaking efficiency of 15.70% when the active layers were further thickened to around 500 nm. By exhibiting such a rare high-performance brominated acceptor, this work highlights the potential for achieving record-breaking organic solar cells through delicate bromination.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Dingding Qiu, Yanan Shi, Yi Li, Jianqi Zhang, Kun Lu, Zhixiang Wei
Summary: In this study, two polymer donor materials, PBDT and PDTBDT, with different conjugation ranges were designed and synthesized. It was demonstrated for the first time that extending the conjugation range of donor materials in all-polymer solar cells can significantly improve device efficiency and stability. The experimental results showed that the donor material with a larger conjugation range had stronger crystallinity and a more planar structure, resulting in higher exciton dissociation probability, lower carrier recombination probability, more balanced charge transport properties, and more favorable film morphology. The all-polymer solar cell with PDTBDT as the donor material exhibited outstanding efficiency and significantly improved stability.
CHINESE CHEMICAL LETTERS
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yahui Liu, Bowen Liu, Chang-Qi Ma, Fei Huang, Guitao Feng, Hongzheng Chen, Jianhui Hou, Lingpeng Yan, Qingya Wei, Qun Luo, Qinye Bao, Wei Ma, Wei Liu, Weiwei Li, Xiangjian Wan, Xiaotian Hu, Yanchun Han, Yaowen Li, Yinhua Zhou, Yingping Zou, Yiwang Chen, Yuqiang Liu, Lei Meng, Yongfang Li, Yongsheng Chen, Zheng Tang, Zhicheng Hu, Zhi-Guo Zhang, Zhishan Bo
Summary: This review examines the rapid development of organic solar cells and highlights the importance of device engineering in achieving high power conversion efficiency. The challenges, problems, and future developments in this field are also discussed.
SCIENCE CHINA-CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Suxiang Ma, Hao Zhang, Kui Feng, Xugang Guo
Summary: All-polymer solar cells have shown excellent mechanical flexibility and device stability compared to other organic solar cells. This review summarizes the recent progress of polymer acceptors based on electron-deficient building blocks, and discusses the structure-property correlations and the development of new building blocks for efficient all-polymer solar cells.
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Qianguang Yang, Weiyang Yu, Jie Lv, Peihao Huang, Guotian He, Zeyun Xiao, Zhipeng Kan, Shirong Lu
Summary: This article investigates the effects of fluorination position on polymerized small molecule acceptors and all-polymer solar cell performance. It finds that devices based on end group fluorinated polymer acceptor material have higher efficiency and stability, providing new ideas for the design of high-performance all-polymer solar cells.
Article
Polymer Science
Muhammad Raheel Khan, Bozena Jarzabek
Summary: This study utilized numerical simulations to investigate the performance of an organic thin-film solar cell, finding that the thickness of the active layer significantly impacts efficiency, while temperature and defect density also affect efficiency. Additionally, the application of a reflective coating and doping of HTL and ETL were shown to positively influence the efficiency of this type of solar cells.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Hoseon You, Hyunbum Kang, Donguk Kim, Jin Su Park, Jin-Woo Lee, Seungjin Lee, Felix Sunjoo Kim, Bumjoon J. Kim
Summary: Quinoxaline (Qx) derivatives have shown promise as building units for efficient photovoltaic polymers, with the newly developed Qx-based polymer acceptors demonstrating high performance in both organic field-effect transistors and all-polymer solar cells.
Article
Polymer Science
Tarek I. Alanazi
Summary: The utilization of indoor photovoltaics for harvesting energy from artificial light sources is feasible. However, more comprehensive testing of tandem structures is needed. This study provides the first systematic TCAD simulation study on the potential for tandem all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) for indoor applications. The simulation results showed that the optimized tandem for outdoor applications was not suitable for indoor conditions, but adjusting the thicknesses of the top and bottom absorber layers can improve the performance for indoor lighting.
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Jie Dou, Jin Tan, Benlin He, Jialong Duan, Qunwei Tang
Summary: In this study, nickel oxide (NiOx) decorated graphene oxide (GO) is used as a hole collector for a carbon-based CsPbBr3 perovskite solar cell, which significantly improves the crystallinity of the perovskite layer and the hole extraction ability. The all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite solar cell achieves a power conversion efficiency of 8.59%, and the best solar cell without encapsulation retains 94.2% of its initial efficiency over 21 days in an air environment.
DALTON TRANSACTIONS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Qiang Wu, Wei Wang, Yao Wu, Rui Sun, Jing Guo, Mumin Shi, Jie Min
Summary: This paper demonstrates the importance of electron linker engineering in improving the efficiency and stability of all-polymer solar cells. By designing and synthesizing polymer acceptors with different electron linkers, the intermolecular interactions and charge transport properties of the relative polymer acceptors can be tuned, leading to superior performance and excellent material compatibility.
NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Ibrar Ahmad, Khizar Hayat, Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Imran, Said Karim Shah
Summary: This article reports the simulation of ZnO-based polymer solar cell (PSC) device parameters using SCAPS-1D software. Two device configurations of PSCs were simulated with and without ZnO. The effects of key device processing parameters on cell performance were investigated. The results showed a good correlation between simulated and experimental devices, with well-matched efficiencies.
OPTICAL AND QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Luye Cao, Xiaoyang Du, Xinrui Li, Zeyu He, Hui Lin, Caijun Zheng, Gang Yang, Zhenhua Chen, Silu Tao
Summary: All-small-molecule organic solar cells (ASM-OSCs) have broad commercial prospects but face limitations in power conversion efficiency due to a lack of research on the transport layer. A proposed electron transport layer (ETL) optimization strategy, using 1,8-Octanediol (DOH) to form intermolecular hydrogen bonds, improves device performance and stability, with potential for large-area and industrial production.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jun Yuan, Chujun Zhang, Beibei Qiu, Wei Liu, Shu Kong So, Mathieu Mainville, Mario Leclerc, Safa Shoaee, Dieter Neher, Yingping Zou
Summary: Organic solar cells (OSCs) have made rapid progress in recent years through the development of novel organic photoactive materials, particularly non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). However, the understanding of the interplay between molecular structure and optoelectronic properties lags significantly behind. The potential role of energetic disorder in OSCs has received little attention, but recent studies have shown that state-of-the-art NFA-based devices can achieve both low energetic disorder and high power conversion efficiency (PCE).
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Qunping Fan, Ruijie Ma, Zhaozhao Bi, Xunfan Liao, Baohua Wu, Sen Zhang, Wenyan Su, Jin Fang, Chao Zhao, Cenqi Yan, Kai Chen, Yuxiang Li, Chao Gao, Gang Li, Wei Ma
Summary: By combining selenophene-fused core with naphthalene-containing end-group, a near-infrared (NIR)-absorbing small-molecule acceptor (SMA) Y-SeNF is developed and incorporated into a binary PM6:L8-BO host system, resulting in improved charge-transporting and suppressed non-radiative energy loss in ternary polymer solar cells (PSCs). The ternary PSCs achieve an impressive device efficiency of 19.28% with high photovoltage and photocurrent, and exhibit excellent stability under maximum-power-point tracking for over 200 hours. This study provides a novel strategy for efficient and stable PSCs towards practical applications.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sai Shruthi Murali, Joseph K. Gallaher, Celine Janiseck, Elliot J. Tay, Isabella Wagner, Karen E. Thorn, Aleksandra Ilina, Ronnie R. Tamming, Jiayu Wang, Clement Sester, Joshua J. Sutton, Michael B. Price, Keith C. Gordon, Kai Chen, Xiaowei Zhan, Justin M. Hodgkiss, Paul A. Hume
Summary: The control over singlet and triplet exciton populations is crucial for organic semiconductor technologies. This study investigates the rate of intersystem crossing (ISC) and demonstrates the occurrence of intramolecular triplet formation in both solution and solid state. It is found that structural distortions in disordered films lead to increased spin-orbit coupling, enabling rapid ISC. The proposal also reveals the role of rotational flexibility and conformational disorder in accelerating ISC. Overall, this work sheds light on the factors affecting ISC and provides a framework for molecular control over spin states.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jiang-Yang Shao, Dongmei Li, Jiangjian Shi, Chuang Ma, Yousheng Wang, Xiaomin Liu, Xianyuan Jiang, Mengmeng Hao, Luozheng Zhang, Chang Liu, Yiting Jiang, Zhenhan Wang, Yu-Wu Zhong, Shengzhong Frank Liu, Yaohua Mai, Yongsheng Liu, Yixin Zhao, Zhijun Ning, Lianzhou Wang, Baomin Xu, Lei Meng, Zuqiang Bian, Ziyi Ge, Xiaowei Zhan, Jingbi You, Yongfang Li, Qingbo Meng
Summary: This review provides a summary of the recent major advances in the research of perovskite solar cells from a material science perspective. It covers topics such as different types of perovskite materials, defects, charge transport materials, counter electrodes, and interfacial materials. It also discusses the limitations and future prospects for the development of perovskite solar cells.
SCIENCE CHINA-CHEMISTRY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Guanghua Huang, Haohan Wu, Zhijun Liu, Hanlin Hu, Shifeng Guo
Summary: Three sodium polyacrylate copolymers (PD0x) were synthesized and investigated as water-based dispersants for grinding red-brown pigment ZnFe1.2Cr0.8O4 particles. It was found that the addition of 2% dispersant PD02 resulted in a narrower particle size distribution in the ground suspension. The added dispersant PD02 exhibited suitable viscosity and generated more hydrogen bonds on the particle surface.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Peiyao Xue, Jingming Xin, Guanyu Lu, Boyu Jia, Heng Lu, Guanghao Lu, Wei Ma, Ray P. S. Han, Xiaowei Zhan
Summary: This study investigated the performance evaluation parameters of semitransparent organic solar cells (ST-OSCs), namely, the average visible transmittance (AVT) and power conversion efficiency (PCE). By reducing the donor content, light absorption in the visible region can be decreased and the AVT values of ST-OSCs can be increased. However, a lower donor content affects exciton generation, exciton dissociation, and charge transport, thereby limiting the PCEs of the cells.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Guanghua Huang, Haohan Wu, Gongxun Cao, Zhijun Liu, Hanlin Hu, Shifeng Guo
Summary: Lithium battery separators with improved performance and safety were obtained by synthesizing four types of polymer particle adhesives (G1-G4) using dispersion polymerization. The particle size, morphology, and glass transition temperature (Tg) of the adhesives were analyzed. The adhesion strength between the battery separators and poles piece was tested, and G3 showed the strongest adhesion. The electrochemical performance of the lithium battery assembled with G3 was found to be the best among the four adhesives.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Jingheng Nie, Bo Zhou, Shaofan Fang, Ye Wang, Yu Wang, Bingbing Tian, Hanlin Hu, Haizhe Zhong, Henan Li, Yumeng Shi
Summary: Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are emerging semiconducting materials with exceptional opto-electronic properties. The exciton emission mechanism in MHPs is still not well understood due to their diverse chemical composition and versatile lattice structure. This review provides a critical overview of the experimental and theoretical approaches used to determine the exciton emission mechanism and summarizes the strategies for achieving efficient light emission in MHPs.
MATERIALS TODAY PHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Shi Liu, Jianqi Ji, Yixing Wang, Cenqi Yan, Huitao Bai, Jiaqiang Qin, Pei Cheng
Summary: This study presents a new strategy for the preparation of carbon aerogel microspheres (CAMs) with high specific surface area. By adjusting the content of SiO2, CAMs with different pore structures and specific surface areas were obtained. The experimental results showed that CAMs exhibited good electrochemical performance, indicating their potential application in supercapacitors.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Yuanhao Li, Yingcong Zheng, Cenqi Yan, Jiayu Wang, Pei Cheng, Shiming Zhang
Summary: With the rapid development of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) in recent years, semitransparent OPVs (STOPVs) are considered as one of the most promising directions for industrialization. However, there is a contradiction between the power conversion efficiency and visible transparency of STOPVs, which can be solved through spectral engineering. This perspective summarizes the recent research progress on spectral engineering for STOPVs and introduces potential applications in agriculture, buildings, vehicles, and floating photovoltaics, offering insights into the challenges and future research directions for the commercialization of STOPVs.
Review
Energy & Fuels
Xiaokang Sun, Jie Lv, Chenyang Zhang, Kai Wang, Chunming Yang, Hanlin Hu, Xiaoping Ouyang
Summary: Compared to polymer-based organic solar cells, all-small-molecule organic solar cells (ASM-OSCs) have gained attention due to their well-defined chemical structures, lower batch-to-batch variation, straightforward synthesis and purification procedures, and easy to modulate properties. Recent developments in small molecule donors have enabled ASM-OSCs to achieve power conversion efficiencies in excess of 17%, gradually approaching those of polymer-based devices, and demonstrating considerable potential for commercialization. However, structural and morphological features in the all-small-molecule blend films play a crucial role in the photoelectric performance.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Chao-Qin Han, Xiaokang Sun, Xiao Liang, Lei Wang, Hanlin Hu, Xiao-Yuan Liu
Summary: Designing crystalline porous materials with efficient hydrogen evolution is a promising strategy. Covalent organic frameworks (COFs), especially sp(2)c-COFs, have good stability and are regarded as outstanding photocatalysts. By designing and synthesizing benzothiadiazole and its derivative-based isoreticular sp(2)c-COFs, we achieve higher photocatalytic activity with broader light-harvesting ranges. The average hydrogen evolution rates of HIAM-0001 and HIAM-0004 are 1410 μmol g(-1) h(-1) and 1526 μmol g(-1) h(-1) under visible-light illumination (λ > 420 nm), respectively. This work provides a new guidance for the rational design of efficient photocatalysts for hydrogen generation.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Chao Zhou, Yonglei Han, Lei Cheng, Ruijie Ma, Fei Wang, Shuchen Weng, Guicheng Yu, Fang Lin, Kang Zhou, Hanlin Hu, Xiao Liang, Yongfei Wang, Haoran Lin, Gang Li
Summary: In this work, two novel organic cations MDAN and EDAN were used to create quasi-2D DJ perovskites. The EDAN-based perovskite showed better film morphology and lower defect density, resulting in a higher power conversion efficiency.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jiaming Huang, Zhen Lu, Jiaqi He, Hong Hu, Qiong Liang, Kuan Liu, Zhiwei Ren, Yaokang Zhang, Hongyu Yu, Zijian Zheng, Gang Li
Summary: In this study, a full-solution-processed device framework for semi-transparent intrinsically stretchable organic photovoltaics (is-OPVs) was reported. The device utilized a ferroconcrete-like composite of AZO@silver nanowires (AgNWs)@AZO as the back stretchable transparent electrode (STE), providing a 3D long-range pathway for efficient charge transport and collection while enhancing interfacial stability. The is-OPV achieved a record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 10.90% by employing thermoplastic polyurethane-embedded AgNWs as the front STE. Mechanical robustness was demonstrated with 76.5% retained initial PCE after 500 cycles of 10% stretch-release. This work lays the foundation for the development of semi-transparent is-OPVs for wearable applications and skin-like electronics.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Dawei Duan, Chuangye Ge, Md Zahidur Rahaman, Chun-Ho Lin, Yumeng Shi, Haoran Lin, Hanlin Hu, Tom Wu
Summary: Metal halide perovskites are easy to synthesize and have tunable physical properties and excellent performance, making them important optoelectronic materials. One-dimensional (1D) nanostructures at both the morphological and molecular levels enhance the performance of optoelectronic devices. Recent progress in the synthesis and characterization of 1D halide perovskites with tunable structures, compositions, and properties, as well as their applications in photovoltaics, light emission, and photodetection, is highlighted. Current challenges, future prospects, and promising research directions are discussed to advance the field of 1D perovskites.
NPG ASIA MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Xiangyan Yun, Jingheng Nie, Haiqing Wang, Hanlin Hu, Haizhe Zhong, Denghui Xu, Yumeng Shi, Henan Li
Summary: A series of Sb3+-doped organic-inorganic halide hybrid (TMA)(2)ZrCl6 microcrystals with intriguing excitation-dependent luminescence are reported. These perovskites exhibit multiexcitonic emission modes and tunable emission, providing unique advantages in anticounterfeiting and solid-state lighting.
ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS
(2023)