Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS

No free lunch for non-fullerene acceptors

  • News & Views
  • Published:

From Nature Materials

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Non-fullerene acceptors have successfully overcome energy losses that were thought to be unavoidable in organic solar cells based on fullerene derivatives. However, it is now shown that they have limits too.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1: Minimum ionization energy offset requirement for low-bandgap NFA-based OSCs.

References

  1. Scharber, M. C. et al. Adv. Mater. 18, 789–794 (2006).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Perdigón-Toro, L. et al. Adv. Mater. 32, 1906763 (2020).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Karuthedath, S. et al. Nat. Mater. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-00835-x (2020).

  4. Poelking, C. & Andrienko, D. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 6320–6326 (2015).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Chandrabose, S. et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 141, 6922–6929 (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Justin M. Hodgkiss

  2. MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington, New Zealand

    Justin M. Hodgkiss

Authors
  1. Justin M. Hodgkiss
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Justin M. Hodgkiss.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The author declares no competing interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Hodgkiss, J.M. No free lunch for non-fullerene acceptors. Nat. Mater. 20, 289–290 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-00836-w

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-00836-w

  • Springer Nature Limited

Search

Navigation