A group of researchers from Japan’s Osaka University has developed new fluorinated electron-accepting units that are said to be able to show precise control of the energy levels within the resulting ...

A research group from the Georgia Institute of Technology is trying to gain insight into the morphological properties of non-fullerene small-molecule acceptors (NAFs), which are used in organic PV ...

Solar energy has been recognized as one of the promising green and renewable energy. Thanks to the synergistic innovation of active layer materials and device optimization techniques, organic solar ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 99, No. 20 (Oct. 1, 2002), pp. 12536-12541 (6 pages) Electron transfer (ET) processes in DNA are of current ...

During 1995-2015, fullerene derivatives had been the dominating electron acceptors in organic solar cells (OSCs) owing to their performance superior to other acceptors. However, the drawbacks of ...

Methane—a potent greenhouse gas—constantly seeps from the ocean floor and can rise into the atmosphere. Now, an international team led by scientists with the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and ...

In a recent study published in Nature Microbiology, researchers use a genome-mining technique to investigate respiratory electron acceptor utilization in the human gut microbiota. Study: Dietary- and ...

PNAS is the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serial. It publishes high-impact research reports, commentaries, perspectives, reviews, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. In ...

In a paper recently published in the journal ACS Energy Letters, researchers reviewed and summarized molecular modeling and synthesis approaches used for advancements in the engineering of ...