Green Inks for the Fabrication of Organic Solar Cells: A Case Study on PBDTTPD:PC61BM Bulk Heterojunctions by Christian Sprau, Ana Milena Cruz, Lorenzo Bautista, Laura Molina, Michael Wagner, Christos L. Chochos, Mónica Della Pirriera, Alexander Colsmann

“…Herein, a comprehensive solubility study is rolled out embracing Hansen solubility parameters (HSPs), tailoring of binary solvents and rational choices of solvent additives, identifying ecofriendly solvents or solvent combinations for the deposition of poly‐benzodithophene‐thienopyrroledione (PBDTTPD)/fullerene thin‐film blends. A particular challenge is the low polymer solubility even in common halogenated solvents. …”
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Techno-Economic and Environmental Perspectives of Solar Cell Technologies: A Comprehensive Review by Shoaib Nazir, Asjad Ali, Abdullah Aftab, Hafiz Abdul Muqeet, Sohrab Mirsaeidi, Jian-Min Zhang

“…Due to their distinct electromechanical and material properties, carbon-based nanomaterials like carbon nanotubes, graphene, fullerene, and nanohybrids are being employed as the electrodes, transport layers, active layers, or intermediate (interfacial) layers of solar cells in this regard.…”
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An Insight into the Excitation States of Small Molecular Semiconductor Y6 by Xianshao Zou, Guanzhao Wen, Rong Hu, Geng Dong, Chengyun Zhang, Wei Zhang, Hao Huang, Wei Dang

“…Y6 is a new type of non-fullerene acceptor, which has led to power conversion efficiencies of single-junction polymer solar cells over 17% when combined with a careful choice of polymeric donors. …”
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The Influence of Electric Field on the Adhesion Characteristics of the Polychloroprene-Shungite System by N. N. Komova, V. I. Solodilov, E. V. Prut, E. E. Potapov

“…This is facilitated by the structural features of schungite (the presence of paramagnetic centers, fullerene-like structures, metal oxides) and polychloroprene in shungite, as well as by the creation of the most optimal modes for implementing this interaction. …”
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X-ray spectral methods for measuring the degree of ordering of carbon nanoparticles by Dmitry G. Letenko, Yury V. Pukharenko, Irina U. Aubakirova

“…The products of synthesis of fulleroid materials were studied: samples of fullerene-containing soot collected at different distances from the arc synthesis zone. …”
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Molecular dynamics and charge transport in organic semiconductors: a classical approach to modeling electron transfer by Pelzer, Kenley M., Vázquez-Mayagoitia, Álvaro, Ratcliff, Laura E., Tretiak, Sergei, Bair, Raymond A., Gray, Stephen K., Larsen, Ross E., Darling, Seth B., Van Voorhis, Troy

“…Here we present LMD simulations of charge transfer between a pair of fullerene molecules, which commonly serve as electron acceptors in OSCs. …”
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Nanocarbon-Based Photovoltaics by Bernardi, Marco, Lohrman, Jessica, Kirkeminde, Alec, Ferralis, Nicola, Grossman, Jeffrey C., Ren, Shenqiang, Kumar, Priyank Vijaya

“…The best device fabricated is composed of PC[subscript 70]BM fullerene, semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes, and reduced graphene oxide. …”
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Poly(3-hexylthiophene) nanofibers for organic photovoltaic applications by Teddy Salim

“…It was found that the morphology of the blends of P3HT nanofibers and fullerene molecules should be optimized to reduce holes recombination prior to extraction to external electrodes. …”
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Anisotropy and spin relaxation in the condensed phase by Handsel, J

“…</p> <p><b>Chapter 2</b> discusses anisotropy in the singlet recombination yield of a radical pair in a carotenoid-porphyrin-fullerene triad, containing many hyperfine couplings. …”

Modeling of static and dynamic components of bio-nanorobotic systems by Gavgani, Hamidreza Khataee

“…The first modeling technique applies graph algorithms to compute a new set of optimal weighted structural properties of C60 and C70 fullerenes. C60 and C70 fullerene nanoparticles are composed of 60 and 70 equivalent carbon atoms, respectively, arranged as hollow cages. …”
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Titanium dioxide (TiO2) as buffer layer in organic solar cell device by Zulkefly, Muhamad Yusuf

“…Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) blends is the most efficient fullerene derivative based donor-acceptor copolymer so far. …”
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Molecular Weight-Dependent Physical and Photovoltaic Properties of Poly(3-alkylthiophene)s with Butyl, Hexyl, and Octyl Side-Chains by Thanh-Danh Nguyen, Van-Hai Nguyen, Jongwoo Song, Jongdeok An, Ngoc-Thuan Truong, Chi-Hien Dang, Chan Im

“…The photovoltaic device performances of the P3BT and P3HT samples significantly improved upon blending with a fullerene derivative and subsequent annealing, whereas those of P3OTs mostly degraded, particularly after annealing. …”
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Modeling and implementation of tandem polymer solar cells using wide‐bandgap front cells by Seo‐Jin Ko, Hyosung Choi, Quoc Viet Hoang, Chang Eun Song, Pierre‐Olivier Morin, Jungwoo Heo, Mario Leclerc, Sung Cheol Yoon, Han Young Woo, Won Suk Shin, Bright Walker, Jin Young Kim

“…This value represents one of the highest PCE values to date for fullerene‐based tandem solar cells.…”
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Aluminosilicatehalloysite nanotubes as a tool of modern nanocomposites for food safety by Haiuk N., Tsekhmistrenko O., Seleznyova A.

“…Aluminosilicatehallusite nanotubes (HNTs) are relatively new objects of research in materials science, they have a number of environmental and economic advantages compared to carbon nanotubes (CNTs), as well as fullerene and graphene. Natural halloysites are an order of magnitude cheaper than their synthetic counterparts. …”
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Pressure and thermal annealing effects on the photoconversion efficiency of polymer solar cells by D. O. Oyewole, O. K. Oyewole, K. Kushnir, T. Shi, O. V. Oyelade, S. A. Adeniji, B. Agyei-Tuffour, K. Evans-Lutterodt, L. V. Titova, W. O. Soboyejo

“…This paper presents the results of experimental and theoretical studies of the effects of pressure and thermal annealing on the photo-conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of polymer solar cells with active layers that consist of a mixture of poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) and fullerene derivative (6,6)-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester. …”
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Inorganic Nanomaterials with Intrinsic Singlet Oxygen Generation for Photodynamic Therapy by Muhammad Rizwan Younis, Gang He, Junle Qu, Jing Lin, Peng Huang, Xing‐Hua Xia

“…In this review, the recent advances in the development of various inorganic nanomaterials as NPSs, including metal‐based (gold, silver, and tungsten), metal oxide‐based (titanium dioxide, tungsten oxide, and bismuth oxyhalide), metal sulfide‐based (copper and molybdenum sulfide), carbon‐based (graphene, fullerene, and graphitic carbon nitride), phosphorus‐based, and others (hybrids and MXenes‐based NPSs) are summarized, with an emphasis on the design principle and 1O2 generation mechanism, and the photodynamic therapeutic performance against different types of cancers. …”
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Benzothiadiazole Based Cascade Material to Boost the Performance of Inverted Ternary Organic Solar Cells by Miron Krassas, Christos Polyzoidis, Pavlos Tzourmpakis, Dimitriοs M. Kosmidis, George Viskadouros, Nikolaos Kornilios, George Charalambidis, Vasilis Nikolaou, Athanassios G. Coutsolelos, Konstantinos Petridis, Minas M. Stylianakis, Emmanuel Kymakis

“…The effective energy level offset caused by compound T between the polymeric donor and fullerene acceptor materials, as well as its resulting potential as electron cascade material contribute to an enhanced exciton dissociation, electron transfer facilitator and thus improved overall photovoltaic performance. …”
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Water-Soluble C60 Protects Against Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis in Mice by Dong R, Liu M, Huang XX, Liu Z, Jiang DY, Xiao HJ, Geng J, Ren YH, Dai HP

“…And, oxidation/antioxidant imbalance plays an important role in the progress of IPF. Fullerene is considered to be a novel &ldquo;structural&rdquo; antioxidant. …”
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Ion tracks in silicon formed by much lower energy deposition than the track formation threshold by H. Amekura, M. Toulemonde, K. Narumi, R. Li, A. Chiba, Y. Hirano, K. Yamada, S. Yamamoto, N. Ishikawa, N. Okubo, Y. Saitoh

“…Tracks are formed in c-Si under 40 MeV fullerene (C60) cluster ion irradiation, which provides much higher energy deposition than monomer ions. …”
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A Review on the Flammability Properties of Carbon-Based Polymeric Composites: State-of-the-Art and Future Trends by Karthik Babu, Gabriella Rendén, Rhoda Afriyie Mensah, Nam Kyeun Kim, Lin Jiang, Qiang Xu, Ágoston Restás, Rasoul Esmaeely Neisiany, Mikael S. Hedenqvist, Michael Försth, Alexandra Byström, Oisik Das

“…The effects of a wide variety of carbon-based material addition (such as fullerene, CNTs, graphene, graphite, and so on) on reaction-to-fire of the polymer composites are reviewed and the focus is dedicated to biochar-based reinforcements for use in flame retardant polymer composites. …”
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