Nanostructured Materials for Organic Solar Cells

Dear Colleagues,

Organic solar cells have attracted tremendous attention due to their feasibility toward low-cost and large-scale production, even on flexible substrates. For the last 30 years, the chemical versatility of organic semiconductors has enabled breakthroughs in various aspects of organic solar cells, including photon harvesting, energy loss, mechanical robustness, and environmental stability. In particular, their capability for fine tuning multiscale morphology in the case of hierarchical nanostructures in multicomponent systems has led to a transcendence in photovoltaic performance, reaching toward that of traditional inorganic and hybrid solar cell technologies.

This Special Issue of Nanomaterials aims to cover the most recent advances in nanostructured materials for organic solar cells, including but not limited to material design, fabrications, physical and chemical characterizations, and stability. We invite original papers in various formats, including full papers, communications, and reviews. The potential topics are as follows.

1. Development, synthesis and fabrication of organic semiconductors for photovoltaic applications;
2. Innovative fabrication methods for the nanostructured organic thin films for photovoltaic applications;
3. Binary, ternary, quaternary, and multicomponent nanostructures in organic thin films for photovoltaic applications;
4. Design, fabrication, and modeling of optical nanostructures for photovoltaic applications;
5. In-depth analyses of energy loss, charge generation, recombination, and collection in nanostructured organic thin films;
6. In-depth characterizations of multiscale morphologies in organic multicomponent systems for photovoltaic applications;
7. Original approaches for the optimization of multiscale morphologies and crystallographic structures;
8. Original approaches for the characterization of nanostructures for photovoltaic applications;
9. Large-scale, low-cost, and reproducible fabrication of nanostructured organic photovoltaic devices;
10. Flexible, transparent, and multifunctional organic nanostructures for photovoltaic applications;
11. Environmentally friendly fabrication of nanostructured organic thin films for photovoltaic applications;
12. Other recent advances in nanostructured organic materials for photovoltaic applications.

Dr. Sae Byeok Jo
Guest Editor

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