Design, Synthesis and Applications of Photovoltaic Materials
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 281
Special Issue Editors
Interests: conjugated organic materials; chemical building block; side chain engineering; organic materials for photovoltaics; two-dimensional grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering; chemical building block for stability; organic/inorganic composite; organic hole/electron transporting materials
Interests: organic photovoltaics; conjugated polymer
Interests: organic photovoltaics; organic light-emitting-diode; organic thin-film-transistor; perovskite solar cells; dye-sensitized solar cell; organic/Inorganic nanocomposite for energy application; flexible and wearable electronics; polymers in sensor application
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With extensive exploration and remarkable breakthroughs in developing new materials, organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed toward realizing their potential as inexpensive, large-area, flexible, and lightweight solar energy conversion technologies. Since the advent of conjugated organic materials as electron donors, electron acceptors, and transporting materials, each incorporating various chemical building blocks to form optimized active layers and transporting layers, the OPV community has continued to improve the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of such devices.
Several effective strategies for optimizing organic materials include using novel building blocks, tuning the energy level and gap, and side-chain engineering. To be among the frontiers contributing new methods for accelerating the exploration of optimized organic materials for photovoltaic application, we focus on the design and synthesis of organic materials in this Special Issue. Original research articles or reviews that deliver the fundamental properties of novel building blocks, structural optimization, screening of proper combination of chemical building blocks, and packing properties toward molecule engineering are included in this topic. We hope this Special Issue can provide a cutting-edge concept for pursuing next-generation organic materials for photovoltaic applications.
Dr. Yu-Che Lin
Dr. Chung-Hao Chen
Dr. Yu-Wei Su
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- conjugated organic materials
- chemical building block
- side chain engineering
- organic materials for photovoltaics
- two-dimensional grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering
- chemical building block for stability
- organic/inorganic composite
- organic hole/electron transporting materials
