Neul Ha, GwangHee Lee, Jaemin Park, Joo-Hong Lee, Jisu Jung, Sunil V. Barma, Jugyoung Kim, Ji Hoon Kim, Jung Kyu Kim, Seok Joon Kwon, Sang Uck Lee, Sohee Jeong, Sae Byeok Jo, Jin-Wook Lee, Wooseok Yang
{"title":"Dithiocarbamate-Based Solution Processing for Cation Disorder Engineering in AgBiS2 Solar Absorber Thin Films (Adv. Energy Mater. 2/2025)","authors":"Neul Ha, GwangHee Lee, Jaemin Park, Joo-Hong Lee, Jisu Jung, Sunil V. Barma, Jugyoung Kim, Ji Hoon Kim, Jung Kyu Kim, Seok Joon Kwon, Sang Uck Lee, Sohee Jeong, Sae Byeok Jo, Jin-Wook Lee, Wooseok Yang","doi":"10.1002/aenm.202570011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202570011","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Solar Absorber Thin Films</b>","PeriodicalId":111,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Energy Materials","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142987127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongyu Fan, Hang Yang, Yue Wu, Chaohua Cui, Yongfang Li
{"title":"Phenanthrene Treatment for O‐xylene‐Processed PM6:Y6‐Based Organic Solar Cells Enables Over 19% Efficiency","authors":"Hongyu Fan, Hang Yang, Yue Wu, Chaohua Cui, Yongfang Li","doi":"10.1002/aenm.202405257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202405257","url":null,"abstract":"Achieving excellent charge transport properties in high‐performance organic solar cells (OSCs) generally requires photovoltaic materials to have strong crystallinity. Meanwhile, non‐halogenated solvent processing is very important for future application of the OSCs. However, highly crystalline materials will pose challenges for the control of molecular aggregation behavior in donor/acceptor blend films processed with high boiling point non‐halogenated solvents. Herein, a new approach to effectively regulate the aggregation of represented strong crystallinity material Y6 in high boiling point processing solvents is developed by employing phenanthrene (PAT) with unique crystallinity and relatively loose molecular stacking as volatile solid additive. It is elucidated that PAT treatment shows a significant effect in inhibiting the excessive self‐aggregation of Y6 in high boiling point solvent during the film formation process and reducing the crystallization rate of Y6 molecules under thermal annealing, resulting in highly ordered molecular packing and favorable phase‐separated morphology. As a result, the PM6:Y6‐based device processed with chlorobenzene, toluene, and <jats:italic>o</jats:italic>‐xylene achieve excellent power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 17.71%, 17.99%, and 19.04%, respectively. The efficiency of 19.04% represents the highest value so far for the PM6:Y6‐based binary OSCs processed with high boiling point non‐halogenated solvents.","PeriodicalId":111,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Energy Materials","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142974896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julian Matthias Haffner-Schirmer, Vincent Marc Le Corre, Karen Forberich, Hans Joachim Egelhaaf, Tobias Osterrieder, Jonas Wortmann, Chao Liu, Paul Weitz, Thomas Heumüller, Andreas Josef Bornschlegl, Josua Wachsmuth, Andreas Distler, Michael Wagner, Zijian Peng, Larry Lüer, Christoph Joseph Brabec
{"title":"A High Throughput Platform to Minimize Voltage and Fill Factor Losses","authors":"Julian Matthias Haffner-Schirmer, Vincent Marc Le Corre, Karen Forberich, Hans Joachim Egelhaaf, Tobias Osterrieder, Jonas Wortmann, Chao Liu, Paul Weitz, Thomas Heumüller, Andreas Josef Bornschlegl, Josua Wachsmuth, Andreas Distler, Michael Wagner, Zijian Peng, Larry Lüer, Christoph Joseph Brabec","doi":"10.1002/aenm.202403479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202403479","url":null,"abstract":"Organic photovoltaics (OPV) now can exceed 20% power conversion efficiency in single junction solar cells. To close the remaining gap to competing technologies, both fill factor and open-circuit voltage must be optimized. The Langevin reduction factor is a well-known concept that measures the degree to which charge extraction is favored over charge recombination. It is therefore ideally suited as an optimization target in high-throughput workflows; however, its evaluation so far requires expert interaction. Here, an integrated high-throughput workflow is presented, able to obtain the Langevin reduction factor within a few seconds with high accuracy without human intervention and thus suited for autonomous experiments. This is achieved by combining evidence from UV–vis spectra, current–voltage curves, and a novel implementation of microsecond transient absorption kinetics allowing, for the first time, the intrinsic determination of charge absorption cross-sections, which is crucial to reporting stationary charge densities. The method is demonstrated by varying the donor:acceptor ratio of the high performance OPV blend PM6:Y12. The high reproducibility of the method allows to find a strictly exponential relationship between the PM6 exciton energy and the Langevin reduction factor.","PeriodicalId":111,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Energy Materials","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142968609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Natural Dextran as an Efficient Interfacial Passivator for ZnO-Based Electron-Transport Layers in Inverted Organic Solar Cells","authors":"Bin Zhang, Zhenshen Pan, Wenming Li, Yushou Zhao, Xiaolan Qin, Aiqin Li, Menglan Lv, Xiaofeng Qin, Weile Guo, Zhicai He, Ergang Wang","doi":"10.1002/aenm.202404297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202404297","url":null,"abstract":"Compared to conventional organic solar cells (OSCs) with acidic PEDOT:PSS as the hole transport layer (HTL), inverted OSCs (i-OSCs) with zinc oxide (ZnO) as the electron transport layer (ETL) display significant advantages in terms of high stability. However, an obvious limitation in i-OSCs is that the sol-gel processed ZnO layers possess detrimental defects at the interface, which hinders the improvement of its photovoltaic performance. To address this problem, a natural, and green dextran (Dex) is used as an efficient interfacial passivator to modify the ZnO layer, thereby achieving enhanced device performance in i-OSCs. The introduction of the Dex passivator efficiently suppresses the interfacial recombination loss, resulting in higher power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). Interestingly, Dex-passivated ZnO exhibits broad applications as an ETL for different types of i-OSCs, including fullerene, non-fullerene, and all-polymer OSCs, in which the D18:Y6 system gives the highest PCE of 18.32%. This is one of the highest values reported for binary i-OSCs. Moreover, the application of Dex significantly improves the device stability, and the <i>T</i><sub>80</sub> lifetimes based on PM6:Y6, D18:Y6, and PM6:PY-IT exceed 1500 h. These results imply that Dex is an excellent interfacial passivator for ZnO-based ETL for high-efficiency and stable i-OSCs.","PeriodicalId":111,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Energy Materials","volume":"205 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142968578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecular Design of Imino Anion Acceptors Enables Long-Life Fluoride Ion Batteries","authors":"Guyue Li, Decheng Li, Meng Lei, Chilin Li","doi":"10.1002/aenm.202404282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202404282","url":null,"abstract":"Anion acceptors (AAs) enable to dissolve metal fluoride salts and achieve reversible fluorination and defluorination in fluoride ion batteries (FIBs). However, most reported strategies only focus on boron- and alcohol-based AAs with strong Lewis acidity and excessive hydrogen bond (HB) strength, which often leads to the uncontrollable mass loss of active materials and the inferior reduction stability of electrolyte. Although amino and imine groups possess preferable anti-reductive property, their HB strengths are apparently too weak to dissociate fluoride salts. Here a novel strategy is proposed for molecular structure design toward imino AAs by introducing double bonds and pyridine-N into the five-membered-ring of pyrrolidine. Therein the conjugation effect, inductive effect, and α effect are synergistically utilized to enhance the Lewis acidity of imino group. Theoretical calculations and experiments prove that 1,2,4-triazole AA retains the reduction stability in the maximum extent while increasing the HB strength of imino group. Based on this imino AA, the electrolyte achieves an unprecedented wide electrochemical stability window (5.5 V), enabling highly reversible cycling of fluorination and defluorination for CuF<sub>2</sub>||Pb full cells (>300 cycles) with a Cu<sup>+</sup>-mediated two-step redox mechanism, for PbF<sub>2</sub>-Pb||PbF<sub>2</sub>-Pb symmetric cells (1600 h) with low overpotential, and for PbF<sub>2</sub>||Pb asymmetric cells with high coulombic efficiency.","PeriodicalId":111,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Energy Materials","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142968611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xinqiang Wang, Bo Liu, Zhibin Xu, Ya Zhou, Yaxiong Yang, Hongge Pan, Gongming Wang
{"title":"Characterization Techniques for Probing the Electrolyte Solvation Structures of Aqueous Zinc Metal Batteries","authors":"Xinqiang Wang, Bo Liu, Zhibin Xu, Ya Zhou, Yaxiong Yang, Hongge Pan, Gongming Wang","doi":"10.1002/aenm.202405253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202405253","url":null,"abstract":"While aqueous zinc metal batteries (AZMBs) have shown great promise for large-scale energy storage, a series of interfacial side reactions derived from the decomposition of active water molecules in the Zn<sup>2+</sup> solvation structures seriously hinder the practical application of AZMBs. Recently, regulating the solvation structures of Zn<sup>2+</sup> in electrolytes has been proven to be effective in alleviating the interfacial side reactions. Advanced characterization techniques to probe the solvation structures of electrolytes provide powerful tools for comprehensively understanding the underlying relationship between the solvation structures of electrolytes and the performance of AZMBs. Although significant processes have been achieved in electrolyte engineering and mechanistic understanding of the solvation structures has been preliminarily established, systematic summary of the characterization techniques for solvation structures is still absent. Considering the importance of the solvation structures in electrolyte engineering, a comprehensive review of this topic is necessary. In this review article, the advantages and application scope of the ever-used characterization techniques in studying the solvation structures are introduced and the remaining challenges and the potential opportunities in the future are discussed.","PeriodicalId":111,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Energy Materials","volume":"127 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142968613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoping Yi, Yang Yang, Kaishan Xiao, Sidong Zhang, Bitong Wang, Nan Wu, Bowei Cao, Kun Zhou, Xiaolong Zhao, Kee Wah Leong, Xuelong Wang, Wending Pan, Hong Li
{"title":"Achieving Balanced Performance and Safety for Manufacturing All-Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries by Polymer Base Adjustment","authors":"Xiaoping Yi, Yang Yang, Kaishan Xiao, Sidong Zhang, Bitong Wang, Nan Wu, Bowei Cao, Kun Zhou, Xiaolong Zhao, Kee Wah Leong, Xuelong Wang, Wending Pan, Hong Li","doi":"10.1002/aenm.202404973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202404973","url":null,"abstract":"Organic–inorganic composite solid electrolytes (CSEs) have aroused intensive attention due to their balanced performance and environmental adaptability. However, their high performance, e.g., the high ionic conductivity, wide electrochemical window, and excellent interfacial compatibility, is achieved by sacrificing their mechanical strength, which increases the possibility of short circuits and thus poses serious safety hazards. Herein, a high-performance and rigid-flexible PM polymer matrix is synthesized by a simple process of polymerization addition reaction between polyethylene oxide (PEO) and methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI), where PM-based CSEs (denoted as PMPS@LATP-NF) is also prepared through a porous non-woven fabric (NF) dense filling process. The effect of PM polymer on the mechanical properties, ionic transport, and interactions of CSEs is elucidated by the combined experimental and theoretical methods, where functional groups (─C─O─C, ─NCO, ─NH) contribute to the dissociation of lithium salts, self-healing, and interfacial compatibility. Besides, PMPS@LATP-NF can further mechanically regulate lithium dendrites and demonstrates ultra-high thermal stability. Moreover, PMPS@LATP-NF exhibits significantly enhanced cycling performance and rate capability in all-solid-state Li/LiFePO<sub>4</sub> cells. This work emphasizes the pivotal role of the mechanical properties of CSEs in electrolyte modification, cycling stability, and lifespan of all-solid-state lithium metal batteries, and provides inspiration for the development of practical solid electrolytes.","PeriodicalId":111,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Energy Materials","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":27.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142968612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}