Recent progress in porphyrin-based materials for organic solar cells

This article is written to provide an up-to-date review of porphyrin-based materials used in organic solar cells (OSCs). During the past two decades, OSCs have been the subject of extensive research and significant efforts have been devoted to developing low-cost OSCs, and they are not far from comm...

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Published inJournal of materials chemistry. A, Materials for energy and sustainability Vol. 6; no. 35; pp. 16769 - 16797
Main Authors Mahmood, Asif, Hu, Jian-Yong, Xiao, Bo, Tang, Ailing, Wang, Xiaochen, Zhou, Erjun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Royal Society of Chemistry 2018
Subjects
chemistry
Commercialization
Dye-sensitized solar cells
dyes
guidelines
Optoelectronic devices
Organic chemistry
Photovoltaic cells
Photovoltaics
Polymers
Porphyrins
Solar cells
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Summary:This article is written to provide an up-to-date review of porphyrin-based materials used in organic solar cells (OSCs). During the past two decades, OSCs have been the subject of extensive research and significant efforts have been devoted to developing low-cost OSCs, and they are not far from commercialization. Porphyrin and its analogues have been successfully applied to different optoelectronic devices, especially attaining remarkable fame when applied in dye sensitized solar cells. Despite the initial failures of their application in OSCs, porphyrins still attract much attention because of their structural versatility and recently realized significant improvement. In this review, we focus on summarizing the recent progress in porphyrin-based photovoltaic materials, including polymers, dyads, triads, small-molecules, and so on. We hope this paper could provide an in-depth study on the structure-property-performance relationship and provide a guideline for the further development of porphyrin-based and even other photovoltaic materials. This article is written to provide an up-to-date review of porphyrin-based materials used in organic solar cells (OSCs).
Bibliography:Asif Mahmood received his master's degree from Sargodha University, Pakistan in physical chemistry. He is currently a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Erjun Zhou at the CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China. His research interests include the design and synthesis of organic small molecules for organic solar cells.
Erjun Zhou received his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Yongfang Li. From 2007 to 2014, he worked in Japan with Prof. Kazuhito Hashimoto and Prof. Keisuke Tajima as a postdoctoral fellow/research scientist at the JST, the University of Tokyo and RIKEN. In 2014, he joined the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China as a professor. His research interests are the design, synthesis, and characterization of organic and polymeric functional materials for optoelectronic and photovoltaic applications.
Ailing Tang received her Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Jiannian Yao and Prof. Chuanlang Zhan. She is currently an associate professor at the CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China. Her research interests include the design and synthesis of organic small molecules for organic solar cells and the device fabrication.
Jian-Yong Hu received his Ph.D degree from Saga University in Japan in 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Takehiko Yamato. He did postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Junji Kido, Prof. Yong-Jin Pu, and Prof. Kazuo Takimiya at Yamagata University (2009-2013) and in RIKEN (2013-2015) in Japan. In 2015, he was appointed as a professor at Shaanxi Normal University, China. His current research interests include the design, synthesis, and characterization of conjugated organic and polymeric materials for organic optoelectronics.
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ISSN:2050-7488
2050-7496
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DOI:10.1039/c8ta06392c