Towards a bright future: The versatile applications of organic solar cells
Due to the mechanical flexibility, light weight, aesthetics, absorption tunability and environmental friendliness, organic solar cells (OSCs) have superior application potential over their inorganic counterparts including silicon and perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Thanks to these benefits, the past...
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| author | Junjiang Wu Mengyuan Gao Yubo Chai Pengke Liu Bo Zhang Junwei Liu Long Ye |
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| description | Due to the mechanical flexibility, light weight, aesthetics, absorption tunability and environmental friendliness, organic solar cells (OSCs) have superior application potential over their inorganic counterparts including silicon and perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Thanks to these benefits, the past decade have witnessed the rapid growth of flexible OSCs, semitransparent OSCs and indoor OSCs. In this progress report, we firstly overview the recent advance of the applications of the three promising OSCs. Subsequently, we sketch the critical points for the three classes of OSCs and highlight the efforts paid by the research community to address these issues. Besides, we discuss some popular strategies to afford great performance of each kind of OSC, respectively, and underline the corresponding breakthrough directions. Last but not least, we present the remaining challenges for advancing the commercial applications of these three classes of OSCs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e2b6305e54514524ad8cf20d0a2d73002022-12-27T04:39:10ZengKeAi Communications Co. Ltd.Materials Reports: Energy2666-93582021-11-0114100062Towards a bright future: The versatile applications of organic solar cellsJunjiang Wu0Mengyuan Gao1Yubo Chai2Pengke Liu3Bo Zhang4Junwei Liu5Long Ye6School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, PR ChinaSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, PR ChinaSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, PR ChinaSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, PR ChinaSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, PR ChinaSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, PR China; Corresponding author. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, PR China.School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, PR China; State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, PR China; Corresponding author. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300350, PR China.Due to the mechanical flexibility, light weight, aesthetics, absorption tunability and environmental friendliness, organic solar cells (OSCs) have superior application potential over their inorganic counterparts including silicon and perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Thanks to these benefits, the past decade have witnessed the rapid growth of flexible OSCs, semitransparent OSCs and indoor OSCs. In this progress report, we firstly overview the recent advance of the applications of the three promising OSCs. Subsequently, we sketch the critical points for the three classes of OSCs and highlight the efforts paid by the research community to address these issues. Besides, we discuss some popular strategies to afford great performance of each kind of OSC, respectively, and underline the corresponding breakthrough directions. Last but not least, we present the remaining challenges for advancing the commercial applications of these three classes of OSCs.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666935821001026Organic photovoltaicsSemi-transparent devicesFlexibilityGreenhousesIndoor solar cellsOSCs |
| spellingShingle | Junjiang Wu Mengyuan Gao Yubo Chai Pengke Liu Bo Zhang Junwei Liu Long Ye Towards a bright future: The versatile applications of organic solar cells Materials Reports: Energy Organic photovoltaics Semi-transparent devices Flexibility Greenhouses Indoor solar cells OSCs |
| title | Towards a bright future: The versatile applications of organic solar cells |
| title_full | Towards a bright future: The versatile applications of organic solar cells |
| title_fullStr | Towards a bright future: The versatile applications of organic solar cells |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a bright future: The versatile applications of organic solar cells |
| title_short | Towards a bright future: The versatile applications of organic solar cells |
| title_sort | towards a bright future the versatile applications of organic solar cells |
| topic | Organic photovoltaics Semi-transparent devices Flexibility Greenhouses Indoor solar cells OSCs |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666935821001026 |
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