Organic photovoltaics’ new renaissance: advances toward roll-to-roll manufacturing of non-fullerene acceptor organic photovoltaics

Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have recently breathed new life into organic photovoltaic (OPVs), achieving breakthrough photovoltaic conversion efficiencies. Unlike conventional fullerene acceptors, they offer strong levels of tunability and solution-processibility that allow them to be easily explo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ng, Leonard W. T., Lee, Seok Woo, Chang, Dong Wook, Hodgkiss, Justin M., Vak, Doojin
Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/162496
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Summary:Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have recently breathed new life into organic photovoltaic (OPVs), achieving breakthrough photovoltaic conversion efficiencies. Unlike conventional fullerene acceptors, they offer strong levels of tunability and solution-processibility that allow them to be easily exploited in the roll-to-roll (R2R) fabrication process. This has enabled a new renaissance for OPVs in the face of other photovoltaic material candidates for large-scale, high-throughput, cost-effective manufacturing. In this review, the current progress of R2R manufacturing of NFA-OPVs and the applications enabled by them are summarized. The perspectives on their research, technological, and future prospects for industry scale-up are also presented.