Citation: Jinsheng Song, Zhishan Bo. Asymmetric molecular engineering in recent nonfullerene acceptors for efficient organic solar cells[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2023, 34(10): 108163. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.108163 shu

Asymmetric molecular engineering in recent nonfullerene acceptors for efficient organic solar cells

Jinsheng Song ^{a, *,} ,
Zhishan Bo ^{b, c, *,}

a.
Engineering Research Center for Nanomaterials, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China
b.
Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
c.
College of Textiles & Clothing, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China

songjs@henu.edu.cn

zsbo@bnu.edu.cn

Received Date: 2 December 2022
Revised Date: 30 December 2022
Accepted Date: 26 January 2023
Available Online: 27 January 2023

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Nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs), which usually possess symmetric skeletons, have drawn great attention in recent years due to their pronounced advantages over the fullerene counterparts. Moreover, breaking the symmetry of NFAs could fine tune the molecular dipole, solubility, energy level, intermolecular interaction, molecular packing, crystallinity, etc., and give rise to improved photovoltaic performance. Currently, there are three main strategies for the design of asymmetric NFAs. This review highlights the recent advances of high-performance asymmetric NFAs and briefly outlooks the materials exploration for the future.
- Asymmetric strategy,
- Organic photovoltaics,
- Nonfullerene acceptor,
- Side chain engineering,
- Y-series acceptors
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