Journal
NATURE ENERGY
Volume 3, Issue 9, Pages 720-731Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41560-018-0181-5
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program [2013CB834705]
- Hong Kong Research Grants Council [T23-407/13-N, N_HKUST623/13, 606012]
- National Science Foundation of China [21374090, 51573076]
- Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission [ITC-CNERC14SC01]
- US National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers program through the Northwestern University Materials Research Center [DMR-1121262]
- US Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-15-1-0044]
- Shenzhen Peacock Plan project [KQTD20140630110339343]
- South University of Science and Technology of China [FRG-SUSTC1501A-72]
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The field of non-fullerene organic solar cells has experienced rapid development during the past few years, mainly driven by the development of novel non-fullerene acceptors and matching donor semiconductors. However, organic solar cell material development has progressed via a trial-and-error approach with limited understanding of the materials' structure-property relationships and the underlying device physics of non-fullerene devices. In addition, the availability of hundreds of donor and acceptor semiconductors creates an extremely large pool of possible donor-acceptor combinations, which poses a daunting challenge for rational material screening and matching. This Review describes several important conceptual aspects of the emerging non-fullerene devices by highlighting key contributions that provided fundamental insights regarding rational material design, donor-acceptor pair matching, blend morphology control and the reduced voltage losses in non-fullerene organic solar cells. We also discuss the key challenges that need to be addressed to develop more-efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells.
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