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New‐Era Polymer Thermoelectrics: Material Innovations, Doping Frontiers, Decoupling Strategies, and Unconventional Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The field of polymer thermoelectrics is entering a new era, featuring breakthroughs in addressing the conventional performance disparity between p‐type and n‐type polymers, pioneering doping frontiers, and sophisticated decoupling strategies. This review explores innovations in molecular design and superior stabilities, bridging the gap from ...
Suhao Wang
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Thermodynamic Limits to Molecular Doping in Conjugated Polymers: A Perspective on Phase Behavior and Miscibility

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Molecular doping of conjugated polymers is fundamentally constrained by thermodynamic phase behavior. This Perspective reframes doping efficiency and stability in terms of miscibility limits, binodals, and solvus boundaries, highlighting the role of effective interaction parameters and charge transfer.
Somayeh Kashani, Justin Neu, Sung‐Joo Kwon, Runqio Song, Zixuan Chen, Tajah Trapier, Paschalis Gkoupidenis, David Ginger, Wei You, Jasper J. Michels, Harald Ade   +10 more
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When Poor Exciton Dissociation Limits Photocurrents in Organic Solar Cells: Why Low Offset Non‐Fullerene Acceptor Blends Can't Be Efficient

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The energetic offset between the donor and the acceptor components in organic photoactive layers is central to the tradeoff between photovoltage and photocurrent losses. This Perspective covers the most important issues surrounding this topic in non‐fullerene acceptor blends, from the difficulty of accurately determining state energies and driving ...
Dieter Neher, Manasi Pranav
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Concentrating Solar Power Systems [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017
Development of Concentrating Solar Power Systems has started about 40 years ago. A first commercial implementation was performed between 1985 and 1991 in California. However, a drop in gas prices caused a longer period without further deployment. It was overcome in 2007 when new incentive schemes for renewables in Spain and the US enabled a commercial ...
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Organic Materials of Tomorrow: Horizons of Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines machine learning techniques accelerating the discovery of organic semiconductors by linking molecular structure to properties. Key methods include graph neural networks, generative models, and active learning. Applications to organic photovoltaics demonstrate practical impact.
Harold Mena, J. Terence Blaskovits, Kun‐Han Lin, Denis Andrienko   +3 more
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Rethinking Charge Transport and Recombination in Donor‐Diluted Organic Solar Cells

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Organic solar cells with 1–45% PM6 content in Y12 were studied to link structure and charge dynamics to performance. The conductivity follows a 3D percolation model without a sharp threshold. Donor dilution preserves the photogeneration yield, but limits the fill factor due to transport resistance losses.
Chen Wang, Christopher Wöpke, Toni Seiler, Jared Faisst, Mathias List, Meike Kuhn, Bekcy Joseph, Alexander Ehm, Dietrich R. T. Zahn, Yana Vaynzof, Eva M. Herzig, Roderick C. I. Mackenzie, Uli Würfel, Maria Saladina, Carsten Deibel   +14 more
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Phase Engineering of Atomically Precise Nanoclusters (APNCs) of Gold and Beyond

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Engineering the structural phase of materials is of paramount importance for both fundamental research and practical applications. In this Review, we summarize the recent progress in controlling the phases of atomically precise nanoclusters (APNCs) of gold, silver and copper, as well as bimetallic systems. The phase‐enabled material properties of APNCs
Yitong Wang, Avirup Sardar, Weijie Ji, Zhongyu Liu, Rongchao Jin   +4 more
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Prediction of Solar Flux Density Distribution Concentrated by a Heliostat Using a Ray Tracing-Assisted Generative Adversarial Neural Network

Energies
Predicting the solar flux density distribution formed by heliostats in a concentrated solar tower power (CSP) plant is important for the optimization and stable operation of a CSP plant.
Fen Xu, Yanpeng Sun, Minghuan Guo
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Phase Engineering of Nanomaterials (PEN): Evolution, Current Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes the synthesis, phase transition, advanced characterization spanning ex situ to in situ and operando techniques, and diverse applications of phase engineering of nanomaterials (PEN). It further outlines key challenges and future opportunities, such as phase stability, architecture control, and artificial intelligence (AI)‐driven ...
Ye Chen, Zhanxi Fan, Jingjie Ge, Qiyuan He, Zhuangchai Lai, Jiawei Liu, Chaoliang Tan, Hua Zhang   +7 more
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Review of Concentrated Solar Power Technology Applications in Photocatalytic Water Purification and Energy Conversion: Overview, Challenges and Future Directions

Energies
Photocatalysis, a promising semiconductor-based technology activated by free and eternal solar energy, has great potential for addressing environmental remediation and energy conversion challenges.
Cheng Zhang, Na Li, Guangqi An
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