Preparation and Application of Key Materials for Solar Cells
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Cross-Field Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2024) | Viewed by 4596
Special Issue Editor
Interests: organic solar cells; photovoltaic material design; molecular dynamics; morphology control; charge carrier recombination; device stability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy is an eternal topic for us human beings. Nowadays, fossil fuels are not only scarce but polluting, so there is an urgent demand for energy transformation. Solar energy is one of the important components of green energy and it includes crystalline silicon solar cells, organic solar cells (OSCs), and perovskite solar cells (PVKSCs), etc. Technical innovation, especially material design, is of great strategic significance to further enhance solar energy's power conversion efficiency (PCE). In the last five years, solution-processed solar cells have shown an outstanding development prospect. For example, single-junction OSC promoted the PCE over 19% rapidly, while PVKSC with higher PCE facilitated industrial production. These amazing speeds of development all show that we have more options for the rational use of solar energy. Additionally, we need to further exploit the mechanisms in solar cells and develop more methods to prepare and apply more useful photovoltaic materials.
Therefore, this Special Issue proposes to gather scientific papers on donor/acceptor/buffer-layer material design for OPV, doping/interfacial material preparation for PVKSC, as well as key materials for other types of solar cells. Studies on molecular synthesis or molecular dynamics, aggregation or stacking states of pure and blended materials, as well as the exciton/charge carrier/ion behavior in different materials, or other relevant issues can be included.
Dr. Yue Wu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solar cells
- material innovation
- molecular dynamics
- molecular doping and interfacial engineering
- power conversion efficiency
- device stability
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