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Recent Advances in Organic Photovoltaic Materials Based on Thiazole-Containing Heterocycles

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Improving the photovoltaic performance of fluorinated 2,2′-bithiophene core-based D(A-Ar)2 type small molecules via strategically end-capped heteroaromatic substitution

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Combination of noncovalent conformational locks and side chain engineering to tune the crystallinity of nonfullerene acceptors for high-performance P3HT based organic solar cells

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A benzo[1,2-d:4,5-d]bisthiazole-based wide-bandgap copolymer semiconductor for efficient fullerene-free organic solar cells with a small energy loss of 0.50 eV

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Alkylthiazole-based semicrystalline polymer donors for fullerene-free organic solar cells

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5,6-Difluorobenzothiazole-Based Conjugated Polymers with Large Band Gaps and Deep Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital Levels

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Application of an A-A'-A-Containing Acceptor Polymer in Sequentially Deposited All-Polymer Solar Cells

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Thiazole-Induced Quinoid Polymers for Efficient Solar Cells: Influence of Molecular Skeleton, Regioselectivity, and Regioregularity

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pi-Bridge modification of thiazole-bridged DPP polymers for high performance near-IR OSCs

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Nonfullerene Acceptors for Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells

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Absorptive Behaviors and Photovoltaic Performance Enhancements of Alkoxy-Phenyl Modified Indacenodithieno[3,2-b]thiophene-Based Nonfullerene Acceptors

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New iridium-containing conjugated polymers for polymer solar cell applications

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A wide-bandgap polymer based on the alkylphenyl-substituted benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b]dithiophene unit with high power conversion efficiency of over 11%

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Polymer semiconductors incorporating head-to-head linked 4-alkoxy-5-(3-alkylthiophen-2-yl)thiazole

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Thienothiophene-based copolymers for high-performance solar cells, employing different orientations of the thiazole group as a π bridge

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Significant enhancement of photovoltaic performance through introducing S•••N conformational locks

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A novel wide bandgap conjugated polymer (2.0 eV) based on bithiazole for high efficiency polymer solar cells

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Two compatible nonfullerene acceptors with similar structures as alloy for efficient ternary polymer solar cells

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Rational design of two-dimensional PDI-based small molecular acceptor from extended indacenodithiazole core for organic solar cells

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Intermediate-Sized Conjugated Donor Molecules for Organic Solar Cells: Comparison of Benzodithiophene and Benzobisthiazole-Based Cores

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High Extinction Coefficient Thieno[3,4-b]thiophene-Based Copolymer for Efficient Fullerene-Free Solar Cells with Large Current Density

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High-performance conjugated terpolymer-based organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

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Efficient fullerene-based and fullerene-free polymer solar cells using two wide band gap thiophene-thiazolothiazole-based photovoltaic materials

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Toward n-type analogues to poly(3-alkylthiophene)s: influence of side-chain variation on bulk-morphology and electron transport characteristics of head-to-tail regioregular poly(4-alkylthiazole)s

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Solution-Processed Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Containing Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells with 7.0% Efficiency: In-Depth Investigation on the Effects of Structure Modification and Solvent Vapor Annealing

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Computational modelling of donor-acceptor conjugated polymers through engineered backbone manipulations based on a thiophene-quinoxaline alternating copolymer

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Isostructural, Deeper Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital Analogues of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) for High-Open Circuit Voltage Organic Solar Cells

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