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    A molecular nematic liquid crystalline material for high-performance organic photovoltaics

    Solution-processed organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) hold great promise to enable roll-to-roll printing of environmentally friendly, mechanically flexible and cost-effective photovoltaic devices. Nevertheless,...

    Kuan Sun, Zeyun **ao, Shirong Lu, Wojciech Zajaczkowski in Nature Communications (2015)

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    The optoelectronic role of chlorine in CH3NH3PbI3(Cl)-based perovskite solar cells

    Perovskite photovoltaics offer a compelling combination of extremely low-cost, ease of processing and high device performance. The optoelectronic properties of the prototypical CH3NH3PbI3 can be further adjusted ...

    Qi Chen, Huan** Zhou, Yihao Fang, Adam Z. Stieg, Tze-Bin Song in Nature Communications (2015)

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    Manganese powder promoted highly efficient and selective synthesis of fullerene mono- and biscycloadducts at room temperature

    Discovery of an efficient, practical and flexible synthetic method to produce various important electron acceptors for low-cost organic photovoltaics (OPVs) is highly desirable. Although the most commonly used...

    Weili Si, Xuan Zhang, Shirong Lu, Takeshi Yasuda, Naoki Asao in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    19.31% binary organic solar cell and low non-radiative recombination enabled by non-monotonic intermediate state transition

    Non-fullerene acceptors based organic solar cells represent the frontier of the field, owing to both the materials and morphology manipulation innovations. Non-radiative recombination loss suppression and perf...

    Jiehao Fu, Patrick W. K. Fong, Heng Liu, Chieh-Szu Huang in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Rational molecular and device design enables organic solar cells approaching 20% efficiency

    For organic solar cells to be competitive, the light-absorbing molecules should simultaneously satisfy multiple key requirements, including weak-absorption charge transfer state, high dielectric constant, suit...

    Jiehao Fu, Qianguang Yang, Peihao Huang, Sein Chung, Kilwon Cho in Nature Communications (2024)