Non-fullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Macromolecular Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 390
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic and perovskite optoelectronics; molecular oxide synthesis; thin film characterization
Interests: organic optoelectronics; device physics; materials photophysics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Organic solar cells using non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have recently improved their power-conversion efficiencies to almost 16%. Based on blends of the NFAs with semiconducting polymers, these solar cells are fabricated from solution-processing techniques and have unique prospects for achieving low-cost solar energy harvesting, owing to their material and manufacturing advantages. Their potential applications are broad, ranging from flexible solar modules and semitransparent solar cells in windows, to building applications and even photon recycling in liquid-crystal displays. This Special Issue on “Non-Fullerene Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells” aims to reflect the state-of-the-art topics and progress in the design and synthesis of novel NFAs, material requirements and device operation mechanisms, photoactive layer morphology control, interfaces and electrodes modification, device characterization and photophysics studies, fabrication of novel device architectures, encapsulation methodologies, stability studies, etc. Contributions of theoretical and experimental work or both are welcome, and your contribution to this Special Issue would be greatly appreciated.
Dr. Maria Vasilopoulou
Prof. Leonidas Palilis
Prof. Abd Rashid Bin Mohd Yusoff
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Organic solar cells
- Non-fullerene acceptors
- Design and synthesis
- Morphology
- Interface engineering
- Electrode modification
- Device architecture
- Photophysics
- Stability
- Encapsulation
