Green-solvent-processable organic solar cells
Volume 19, Issue 9, Page 533–543
| Shaoqing Zhang, Long Ye, Hao Zhang, Jianhui Hou
Solution-processable organic photovoltaics (OPV) has emerged as a promising clean energy-generating technology due to its potential for low-cost manufacturing with a high power/weight ratio. The state-of-the-art OPV devices are processed by hazardous halogenated solvents. Fabricating high-efficiency OPV devices using greener solvents is a necessary step toward their eventual commercialization. In this review, recent research efforts and advances in green-solvent-processable OPVs are summarized, and two basic strategies including material design and solvent selection of light-harvesting layers are discussed. In particular, the most recent green-solvent-processable OPVs with high efficiencies in excess of 9% are highlighted.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mattod.2016.02.019
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