Toward Flexible and Stretchable Organic Solar Cells: A Comprehensive Review of Transparent Conductive Electrodes, Photoactive Materials, and Device Performance DOI Open Access
Yong Yan,

Bowen Duan,

Min Ru

et al.

Advanced Energy Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Nov. 10, 2024

Abstract Flexible and stretchable organic solar cells (FOSCs SOSCs) hold immense potential due to their versatility applicability in emerging areas such as wearable electronics, foldable devices, biointegrated systems. Despite these promising applications, several challenges remain, primarily related the mechanical durability, material performance, scalability required for commercialization. This review comprehensively highlights recent advancements design fabrication of FOSCs SOSCs, with a particular emphasis on key functional layers, including transparent conductive electrodes, interfacial photoactive materials, top electrodes. Innovations design, active layers electrodes improved flexibility, are discussed alongside developments device processes achieve power conversion efficiencies exceeding 19%. Furthermore, addresses remaining challenges, need scalable manufacturing techniques enhanced robustness under strain. Finally, prospects SOSCs analyzed, providing insights into how technologies can contribute development sustainable, high‐performance sources electronic devices other flexible electronics. offers valuable insights, bringing commercialization wearable, closer reality.

Language: Английский

Molecular interaction induced dual fibrils towards organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 20% DOI Creative Commons
Chen Chen, Liang Wang,

Weiyi Xia

et al.

Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: Aug. 10, 2024

The nanoscale fibrillar morphology, featuring long-range structural order, provides abundant interfaces for efficient exciton dissociation and high-quality pathways effective charge transport, is a promising morphology high performance organic solar cells. Here, we synthesize thiophene terminated non-fullerene acceptor, L8-ThCl, to induce the fibrillization of both polymer donor host that surpasses 20% efficiency milestone After adding original weak less continuous nanofibrils donors, i.e. PM6 or D18, are well enlarged refined, whilst acceptor L8-BO also assembles into with enhanced order. By adapting layer-by-layer deposition method, order can be retained significantly boost power conversion efficiency, specific values 19.4% 20.1% PM6:L8-ThCl/L8-BO:L8-ThCl D18:L8-ThCl/L8-BO:L8-ThCl devices, latter being certified 20.0%, which highest reported so far single-junction

Language: Английский

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Advances in Smart Photovoltaic Textiles DOI Creative Commons
Iftikhar Ali, Md Rashedul Islam, Junyi Yin

et al.

ACS Nano, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 18(5), P. 3871 - 3915

Published: Jan. 23, 2024

Energy harvesting textiles have emerged as a promising solution to sustainably power wearable electronics. Textile-based solar cells (SCs) interconnected with on-body electronics meet such needs. These technologies are lightweight, flexible, and easy transport while leveraging the abundant natural sunlight in an eco-friendly way. In this Review, we comprehensively explore working mechanisms, diverse types, advanced fabrication strategies of photovoltaic textiles. Furthermore, provide detailed analysis recent progress made various types textiles, emphasizing their electrochemical performance. The focal point review centers on smart for electronic applications. Finally, offer insights perspectives potential solutions overcome existing limitations textile-based photovoltaics promote industrial commercialization.

Language: Английский

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Intrinsically Stretchable Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Improved Mechanical Durability and Stability via Dual‐Donor Polymer Blending DOI
Xin Li, Huizhen Ke, Sunsun Li

et al.

Advanced Functional Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 34(29)

Published: Feb. 8, 2024

Abstract Intrinsically stretchable organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs) have garnered significant attention as crucial devices for powering next‐generation wearable electronics. Despite the rapid power conversion efficiency gains in champion OPVs, their brittle stretchability has failed to meet demands of Internet Things era, severely hindering further development and practical applications. In this regard, a new dual‐donor polymer blending strategy is demonstrated constructing intrinsically OPVs by designing novel high‐molecular–weight conjugated PM6‐HD. This PM6 derivative featuring long alkyl chains can reach sufficiently high molecular weight thus exhibits fracture strain exceeding 90%, which ≈12 times higher than benchmark PM6. Synergistic optimization mechanical properties performance polymer:small molecule all‐polymer systems constructed from physical blends PM6‐HD achieved. Crucially, resulting OPV demonstrates excellent stability, with record PCE 80% 50.3% retention above even after 1000 cycles cyclic stretching at strains. work contributes advancement technology opens up possibilities its integration into electronic devices.

Language: Английский

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Dimerized Acceptors with Conjugate‐Break Linker Enable Highly Efficient and Mechanically Robust Organic Solar Cells DOI
Yafei Ding,

Waqar Ali Memon,

Di Zhang

et al.

Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 63(22)

Published: March 26, 2024

Abstract Designing new acceptors is critical for intrinsically stretchable organic solar cells (IS‐OSCs) with high efficiency and mechanical robustness. However, nearly all polymer exhibit limited high‐performance small molecular are very brittle. In this regard, we select thienylene‐alkane‐thienylene (TAT) as the conjugate‐break linker synthesize four dimerized by regulation of connecting sites halogen substitutions. It found that substitutions considerably impact overall electronic structures, aggregation behaviors, charge transport properties. Benefiting from optimization structure, acceptor exhibits rational phase separation within blend films, which significantly facilitates exciton dissociation while effectively suppressing recombination processes. Consequently, FDY‐m‐TAT‐based rigid OSCs render highest power conversion (PCE) 18.07 % among reported containing linker. Most importantly, IS‐OSCs achieve PCE (14.29 %) remarkable stretchability (crack‐onset strain [COS]=18.23 %), surpassing Y6‐based counterpart (PCE=12.80 COS=8.50 %). To sum up, these findings demonstrate linkers have immense potential in developing highly efficient mechanically robust OSCs.

Language: Английский

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Unveiling the Strain‐induced Microstructural Evolution and Morphology‐Stretchability Correlations of Intrinsically Stretchable Organic Photovoltaic Films DOI
Zhongxiang Peng, Saimeng Li, Kangkang Zhou

et al.

Advanced Energy Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(18)

Published: Feb. 9, 2024

Abstract The progress of stretchable and wearable photovoltaics relies heavily on intrinsically active layer films. Nevertheless, there is a paucity research clarifying the connections between their microstructure, performance, adaptation to large strain in polymer electronic current study utilizes multiple synchrotron X‐ray scattering methods collectively examine correlations morphology stretchability, as well microstructural evolution induced by stretching three sample cases highly ternary blend These blends contain over 30% weight elastomer, such styrene‐ethylene‐butylene‐styrene block copolymer, integrated into high‐performance polymer:nonfullerene small molecule mixture. Specifically, real‐time changes these durable organic photovoltaic films with elastomers are monitored when subjected tensile through situ scattering. experiments demonstrate that polymeric can effectively lower degree crystallinity deform crystallites semiconductor molecules. elastomeric component aids stress dispersion during stretching, thereby improving durability This provides new recommendations for advancing optoelectronic devices.

Language: Английский

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High-performance intrinsically stretchable organic solar cells based on flexible spacer incorporated dimerized small-molecule acceptors DOI
Jin‐Woo Lee,

Cheng Sun,

Seungbok Lee

et al.

Nano Energy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 125, P. 109541 - 109541

Published: March 26, 2024

Language: Английский

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Tuning the solution aggregation and molecular order for efficient and thermally stable polymer solar cells DOI
Mengyuan Gao, Junjiang Wu,

Xiyue Yuan

et al.

Energy & Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 16(12), P. 5822 - 5831

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Molecular ordering effect of semi-paracrystalline polymers on the solution aggregation structure, morphology, and performance polymer/nonfullerene blends has been thoroughly investigated by advanced neutron scattering complementary techniques.

Language: Английский

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Passive Photovoltaic Cooling: Advances Toward Low‐Temperature Operation DOI
Junwei Liu, Yifan Zhou, Zhihua Zhou

et al.

Advanced Energy Materials, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 14(2)

Published: Nov. 27, 2023

Abstract With the great increase in installation, photovoltaics will develop as main power supply source for world shortly. However, actual generation and lifetime of are greatly compromised by high working temperature under outdoor operation. In this review, recent advances four promising passive photovoltaic cooling methods summarized with aim to uncover their principles, performance, application potential devices. For radiative cooling, light management strategies ultraviolet‐photon downshift sub‐bandgap reflection discussed detail reveal reducing enhancing generation. Subsequently, benefits evaporative underlined terms its superior drop Moreover, integrated strategy is further highlighted due electricity production fresh water supply. Most crucially, remaining challenges authors'r insights presented advance commercial applications photovoltaics.

Language: Английский

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Establishing Co‐Continuous Network of Conjugated Polymers and Elastomers for High‐Performance Polymer Solar Cells with Extreme Stretchability DOI Creative Commons
Jin‐Woo Lee, Trieu Hoang‐Quan Nguyen, Eun Sung Oh

et al.

Advanced Energy Materials, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(26)

Published: May 13, 2024

Abstract High power conversion efficiency (PCE) and mechanical robustness are prerequisites for wearable applications of organic solar cells (OSCs). However, stretchability present active systems (i.e., crack‐onset strain (COS) < 30%) should be improved. While introducing elastomers into is considered a simple method improving stretchability, the inclusion typically results in decrease PCE OSC with limited enhancement due to lack interconnected electrical pathways. In this study, it developed efficient intrinsically stretchable (IS)‐OSCs exceptional robustness, by constructing co‐continuous networks conjugated polymers (D18) (SEBS) within layers. It demonstrated that blend film specific ratio (40:60 w/w) D18:SEBS crucial forming structures, establishing well‐connected channels. Consequently, D18 0.4 :SEBS 0.6 /L8‐BO OSCs achieve 16‐times higher (COS = 126%) than based on D18/L8‐BO 8%), while achieving 4‐times (12.13%) compared SEBS‐rich layers (D18 0.2 0.8 /L8‐BO, 3.15%). Furthermore, ‐based IS‐OSCs preserve 86 90% original PCEs at 50% after 200 stretching/releasing cycles 15% strain, respectively, demonstrating highest among reported IS‐OSCs.

Language: Английский

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Simultaneously Improved Stretchability, Stability, and Output Power in Solar Cells via Entanglement Control DOI
Kangkang Zhou,

Dexia Han,

Kaihu Xian

et al.

Energy & Environmental Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 17(16), P. 5950 - 5961

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Intrinsically stretchable all-polymer solar cells with exceptional stability, stretchability, mechanical robustness (1000 cycles at 50% strain) and improved output power were developed via entangled polymer additive, which is widely applicable.

Language: Английский

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