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Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17, 7895
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Charge carrier recombination and voltage losses in organic solar cells

Yi Lin, Zaifei Ma and Zheng Tang

Mater. Horiz., 2025, 12, 7714
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Theoretical investigation of photoelectronic properties in symmetric and asymmetric structures of A–DA′D–A non-fullerene acceptors with diverse central cores

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New J. Chem., 2025, 49, 17870
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Manipulating crystallization kinetics and vertical phase distribution via a small molecule donor guest for organic photovoltaic cells with 20% efficiency

Bo Cheng, Wenwen Hou, Chenyu Han, Sixuan Cheng, Xinxin Xia, Xia Guo, Yongfang Li and Maojie Zhang

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18, 1375
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One more step towards better stability of non-fullerene organic solar cells: advances, challenges, future perspectives, and the Era of artificial intelligence

Nafees Ahmad, Jun Yuan and Yingping Zou

Energy Environ. Sci., 2025, 18, 5093
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Effect of π-bridge lengths in oligomerized fused-ring electron acceptors on the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells

Mingxin Sun, Jianxiao Wang, Cheng Sun, Bin Tang, Xiaofei Qu, Shuguang Wen and Xichang Bao

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2025, 13, 7187
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Efficient organic solar cells with benzo[b]phenazine-core acceptors: insights into the effects of halogenation

Han Tian, Kangbo Sun, Yufei Wang, Zhanxiang Chen, Guangye Zhang and Zhenghui Luo

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 14656
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Lowering Toxicity of Solvent in Organic Solar Cells Manufacturing for 20% Efficiency

Rui Zeng, Fei Han, Wenkai Zhong, Ming Zhang, Senke Tan, Yi Lin, Jiawei Deng, Guanqing Zhou, Lixuan Kan, Lei Zhu, Xingyu Gao, Jinge Zhu, Wutong Zhao, Shengjie Xu, Xiaonan Xue, Bonan Hao, Zichun Zhou, Xuefei Wu, Cheng Wang, Zachary Fink, Zheng Tang, Hao Jing, Thomas P. Russell, Yongming Zhang and Feng Liu

Advanced Materials, 2025, 37
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20.6% Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Enabled by Incorporating a Lower Bandgap Guest Nonfullerene Acceptor Without Open‐Circuit Voltage Loss

Yuanyuan Jiang, Kerui Liu, Feng Liu, Guangliu Ran, Mengni Wang, Tao Zhang, Renjie Xu, Heng Liu, Wenkai Zhang, Zhixiang Wei, Yong Cui, Xinhui Lu, Jianhui Hou and Xiaozhang Zhu

Advanced Materials, 2025, 37
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Connection‐Site‐Determined Electronic and Photovoltaic Properties in Dimeric and Trimeric Oligomeric Acceptors

Min Lv, Peiqing Cong, Zirui Wang, Dan Deng, Zi Liang, Lanhua Yi, Dingding Qiu, Jianqi Zhang, Lingyun Zhu, Ruimin Zhou and Zhixiang Wei

Adv Funct Materials, 2026, 36
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Enhancing molecular stacking and fiber morphology of biaxially conjugated acceptors via cyano substitution to achieve 19.71% efficiency in binary organic solar cells

Han Tian, Kangbo Sun, Dou Luo, Yufei Wang, Zhanxiang Chen, Liyang Yu, Guangye Zhang, Chuluo Yang and Zhenghui Luo

Sci. China Chem., 2025, 68, 6628
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The Critical Isomerization Effect of Core Bromination on Nonfullerene Acceptors in Achieving High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells with Low Energy Loss

Kerui Liu, Yuanyuan Jiang, Feng Liu, Guangliu Ran, Mengni Wang, Wenxuan Wang, Wenkai Zhang, Zhixiang Wei, Jianhui Hou and Xiaozhang Zhu

Advanced Materials, 2025, 37
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Molecular Design of Dimeric Acceptor Enables Binary Organic Solar Cells with 19.78% Efficiency and Enhanced Stability

Yafei Ding, Waqar Ali Memon, Shilong Xiong, Shaokuan Gong, Mingpeng Li, Zihao Deng, Hang Liu, Yongsheng Liu, Xihan Chen, Nan Zheng and Feng He

Advanced Materials, 2025, 37
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CF3-Functionalized Side Chains in Nonfullerene Acceptors Promote Electrostatic Interactions for Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells

Yongjoon Cho, Zhe Sun, Guoping Li, Dayong Zhang, Sangjin Yang, Tobin J. Marks, Changduk Yang and Antonio Facchetti

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 758
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Mitigating Nonradiative Recombination Loss Using Alkoxy‐Substituted Third‐Component Acceptor for 20.1%‐Efficiency Organic Solar Cell

Jiaying Wang, Wenkai Zhao, Yuyang Bai, Guankui Long and Bin Kan

Adv Funct Materials, 2026, 36
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Halogen Substituent Engineering in the Quinoxaline‐based Central Unit of Acceptor for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

Jun Feng, Ya Yuan, Hang Yang, Yu Tao, Kewei Hu, Kui Li, Jiahao Qian, Jianlong Hu, Xuncheng Zhu, Yue Wu and Chaohua Cui

Adv Funct Materials, 2026, 36
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Balance Processing and Molecular Packing via Structural Disordering in a Random Terpolymer for Over 19% Efficiency Non‐Halogenated Solvent Organic Solar Cells

Jingnan Wu, Fengbo Sun, Feng Hua, Wenwen Hou, Xinxin Xia, Xia Guo, Donghong Yu, Ergang Wang, Yongfang Li and Maojie Zhang

Advanced Energy Materials, 2025, 15
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A-D-A′-D-A-type non-fused ring electron acceptors for organic solar cells and photodetectors

Wenkui Wei, Xia Zhou, Mingqun Yang, Baoqi Wu and Chunhui Duan

Sci. China Mater., 2025, 68, 1
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Low non-radiative recombination loss in organic solar cells with 5,6-Difluorobenzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole based donor polymers

Shuo-Jun Wang, Zejun Chen, Xiaoyun Xu, Yuxuan Zhu, Feixiang Zhao, Fang-Liang Dong, Zaifei Ma, Zheng Tang and Ming Wang

Polymer, 2025, 333, 128686
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Improving Molecular Arrangement and Alleviating Nonradiative Energy Loss Using a Chlorinated Pyrido[3,4‐b]Quinoxaline‐Core‐Based Acceptor for High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells

Han Tian, Yongmin Luo, Zhanxiang Chen, Tongle Xu, Ruijie Ma, Jiaying Wu, Gang Li, Chuluo Yang and Zhenghui Luo

Advanced Energy Materials, 2025, 15
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C60‐Terminated Acceptor Boosts Efficiency and Stability in Organic Solar Cells via Interfacial Manipulation

Chen Chen, Fabao Li, Yuyang Wang, Liang Wang, Lingyu Kong, Weiyi Xia, Zirui Gan, Jing Zhou, Hui Wang, Dan Liu, Wei Li and Tao Wang

Advanced Materials, 2026, 38
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Impact of Alkoxy Side Chains on the Quinoxaline-Based Electron Acceptors for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

Kui Li, Ya Yuan, Hang Yang, Jun Feng, Kewei Hu, Xinyu Jiang, Jianlong Hu, Yue Wu and Chaohua Cui

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2024, 16, 53333
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Fluorinated‐Quinoxaline Based Non‐Fused Electron Acceptors Enables Efficient As‐Cast Organic Solar Cells

Dandan Li, Yan Xu, Gang Li, Wenrong Zhao, Lin Da, Ping Zhou and Bo Tang

Chemistry A European J, 2025, 31
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Solution‐Processed Organic Photovoltaics: Fabrication Advances and Challenges

Kerui Liu, Chenyujie Zhu, Yuanyuan Jiang, Feng Liu and Xiaozhang Zhu

Advanced Science, 2026, 13
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Integrated Omnidirectional Design of Non‐Volatile Solid Additive Enables Binary Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency Exceeding 19.5 %

Ya‐Ting Wang, Wen‐Jing Sun, Yamin Zhang, Bo‐Yang Zhang, Yun‐Tao Ding, Ze‐Qi Zhang, Lingxian Meng, Kexin Huang, Wei Ma and Hao‐Li Zhang

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2025, 64
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D1-D2-A ternary conjugated microporous polymers synthesized via direct C H arylation for enhancing photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Can Lang, Hao Gong, Gang Ye, Pachaiyappan Murugan, Zheng-Hui Xie, Yi-Fan Dai, Kai Yang, Changlin Yu and Shi-Yong Liu

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2025, 688, 818
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Challenges and Opportunities of Oligomeric Acceptors Toward Efficient and Stable Organic Photovoltaics

Yafei Ding and Feng He

Advanced Materials, 2026, 38
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Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]difuran-Based Polymer Donor with Chlorophenyl Side Chains Achieving High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

Linglong Ye, Rui Zeng, Yuheng Man, Hwa Sook Ryu, Jiali Song, Yu Bin and Han Young Woo

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2025, 17, 41146
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Enhancing photovoltaic performance via γ-positioned side-chains engineering of Y-series non-fullerene acceptors

Ruixiang Fang, Yilan Zhai, Huijuan Bi, Caixuan Wang, Ailing Tang, Shiming Zhang, Zhixiang Wei and Kun Lu

Chinese Chemical Letters, 2026, 37, 111787
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Dual S-scheme heterojunction nanocomposite-driven charge transport for photocatalytic green energy production and environmental implementations—where to go?

Haitao Ren, Abdelkader Labidi, Zongcheng Miao, Tian Chang, Mohsen Padervand, Eric Lichtfouse and Chuanyi Wang

Adv Compos Hybrid Mater, 2025, 8
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Recent Progress on High-Efficiency Perovskite/Organic Tandem Solar Cells

Kelei Wang, Jiana Zheng, Runnan Yu and Zhan’ao Tan

Nanomaterials, 2025, 15, 745
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Side Chain Engineering of Non‐fused Ring Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

Xia Zhou, Wenkui Wei and Chunhui Duan

Chin. J. Chem., 2026, 44, 2225
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On Refining Exciton Dissociation and Charge Transport of Nonfullerene Organic Photovoltaics: from Star‐Shaped Acceptors to Molecular Doping

Zhiyuan Wu, Jiaqi Xie, Xiaoxiao Zhang and Ziqi Liang

Advanced Materials, 2025
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Recent progress of bay-functionalization perylene diimide acceptors and cathode interface layers in organic solar cells

Shuhua Wang, Dan Zhou, Zhentian Xu, Jiangang Ma, Wei Ding, Jun Mao, Jingyun Huang, Bin Hu, Fang Wang, Ruizhi Lv, Haitao Xu and Lie Chen

Sci. China Mater., 2025, 68, 3894
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Integrated Omnidirectional Design of Non‐Volatile Solid Additive Enables Binary Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency Exceeding 19.5 %

Ya‐Ting Wang, Wen‐Jing Sun, Yamin Zhang, Bo‐Yang Zhang, Yun‐Tao Ding, Ze‐Qi Zhang, Lingxian Meng, Kexin Huang, Wei Ma and Hao‐Li Zhang

Angewandte Chemie, 2025, 137
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Alkylthio side-chain engineering on the quinoxaline-based electron acceptors for efficient organic solar cells

Kui Li, Yue Liu, Hang Yang, Ya Yuan, Jun Feng, Jiahao Qian, Xuncheng Zhu, Yue Wu, Chaohua Cui and Yongfang Li

Organic Electronics, 2025, 145, 107310
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A donor-acceptor integrated polymer for efficient organic solar cells

Lunbi Wu, Xinkang Wang, Maggie Ng, Qingqi Song, Sha Liu, Ruijie Ma, Liwen Hu, Liangbin Xiong, Zhi Xing, Yao Li, Jiaying Wu, Ming Zhang, Shengjian Liu, Yue-Peng Cai, Man-Chung Tang, Feng Liu, Junwu Chen, Gang Li, Tao Jia and Fei Huang

Sci. Adv., 2026, 12
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Selective Co‐Assembly of Water‐Soluble Conjugated Polyelectrolyte with Discernable Fluorescence Modulation for Antibiotic Detection

Hyena Ji, Yesica Fernanda Florez‐Villabona, Youngsun Kim, Yerim Kim, Yongju Kim, Seungyun Baik, Young Hun Seo and Sehoon Kim

Advanced Sensor Research, 2025, 4
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Fluorinated Asymmetric 2D Core-Extended Nonfullerene Acceptors for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

Peddaboodi Gopikrishna, Huijeong Choi, Do Hui Kim, Heunjeong Lee, Seul Lee, Jongnam Park, Shinuk Cho and BongSoo Kim

ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2026, 9, 5733
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Computation-Guided Placement of Nonfullerene Acceptor Core Halogenation for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

Yao Chen, Hongliang Lei, Seunglok Lee, Peihao Huang, Gengsui Tian, Lei Liu, Tianyu Zeng, Changduk Yang, Tainan Duan, Huanyu Zhou, Zeyun Xiao, Tobin J. Marks and Antonio Facchetti

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2026, 148, 723
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