A review of nonfullerene solar cells: Insight into the correlation among molecular structure, morphology, and device performance
Abstract Nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) lead the continuous development of organic solar cells (OSCs) with competitive efficiency over 19%. Design and synthesis of novel photovoltaic materials are effective methods to improve the OSCs performance, which can regulate the optoelectric properties, such...
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| author | Jingming Xin Wangchang Li Yutong Zhang Qiuju Liang Chunpeng Song Yuzhen Zhao Zemin He Jiangang Liu Wei Ma |
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| description | Abstract Nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) lead the continuous development of organic solar cells (OSCs) with competitive efficiency over 19%. Design and synthesis of novel photovoltaic materials are effective methods to improve the OSCs performance, which can regulate the optoelectric properties, such as energy level, absorption spectra, charge transport, and so on. So far, hundreds of NFAs have been reported. Meanwhile, it has been demonstrated that intrinsic morphology of active layer is partially determined by the chemical structures of NFAs. Hence, only in‐depth understanding of the relationship between different structures of NFAs and morphology can guide the molecular design of NFAs for highly efficient OSCs. Herein, we review some state‐of‐the‐art NFAs according to their functional moieties, that is, arene core, end group and side chain, and discuss the relationship between molecular structure, morphology and device parameter. Additionally, the challenges and prospects for further development of OSCs based on NFAs are briefly considered. This review brings a unique insight into structure–function correlation in this field, which may help to rapidly develop efficient OSCs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f606351a2050465c98ced129e210bc6e2023-03-20T10:47:57ZengWileyBattery Energy2768-16962023-03-0122n/an/a10.1002/bte2.20220040A review of nonfullerene solar cells: Insight into the correlation among molecular structure, morphology, and device performanceJingming Xin0Wangchang Li1Yutong Zhang2Qiuju Liang3Chunpeng Song4Yuzhen Zhao5Zemin He6Jiangang Liu7Wei Ma8School of Electronics and Information Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an ChinaXi'an Key Laboratory of Advanced Photo‐electronics Materials and Energy Conversion Device, School of Electronic Information Xijing University Xi'an ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an ChinaSchool of Electronics and Information Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an ChinaState Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an ChinaAbstract Nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) lead the continuous development of organic solar cells (OSCs) with competitive efficiency over 19%. Design and synthesis of novel photovoltaic materials are effective methods to improve the OSCs performance, which can regulate the optoelectric properties, such as energy level, absorption spectra, charge transport, and so on. So far, hundreds of NFAs have been reported. Meanwhile, it has been demonstrated that intrinsic morphology of active layer is partially determined by the chemical structures of NFAs. Hence, only in‐depth understanding of the relationship between different structures of NFAs and morphology can guide the molecular design of NFAs for highly efficient OSCs. Herein, we review some state‐of‐the‐art NFAs according to their functional moieties, that is, arene core, end group and side chain, and discuss the relationship between molecular structure, morphology and device parameter. Additionally, the challenges and prospects for further development of OSCs based on NFAs are briefly considered. This review brings a unique insight into structure–function correlation in this field, which may help to rapidly develop efficient OSCs.https://doi.org/10.1002/bte2.20220040molecular structuremorphologynonfullerene acceptororganic solar cellsperformance |
| spellingShingle | Jingming Xin Wangchang Li Yutong Zhang Qiuju Liang Chunpeng Song Yuzhen Zhao Zemin He Jiangang Liu Wei Ma A review of nonfullerene solar cells: Insight into the correlation among molecular structure, morphology, and device performance Battery Energy molecular structure morphology nonfullerene acceptor organic solar cells performance |
| title | A review of nonfullerene solar cells: Insight into the correlation among molecular structure, morphology, and device performance |
| title_full | A review of nonfullerene solar cells: Insight into the correlation among molecular structure, morphology, and device performance |
| title_fullStr | A review of nonfullerene solar cells: Insight into the correlation among molecular structure, morphology, and device performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | A review of nonfullerene solar cells: Insight into the correlation among molecular structure, morphology, and device performance |
| title_short | A review of nonfullerene solar cells: Insight into the correlation among molecular structure, morphology, and device performance |
| title_sort | review of nonfullerene solar cells insight into the correlation among molecular structure morphology and device performance |
| topic | molecular structure morphology nonfullerene acceptor organic solar cells performance |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/bte2.20220040 |
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