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Chlorinated Thiophene End Groups for Highly Crystalline Alkylated Non-Fullerene Acceptors toward Efficient Organic Solar Cells
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posted on 2019-06-17, 00:00 authored by Jianquan Zhang, Yunke Li, Huawei Hu, Guangye Zhang, Harald Ade, He YanEnd group engineering
is critical for developing A-D-A-type non-fullerene
acceptors with suitable absorption properties and high crystallinity
for organic solar cells. Here, we report the synthesis of a novel
chlorinated thiophene end group and its application in A-D-A-type
acceptors. When combined with a tetraoctyl-substituted indacenodithieno[3,2-b]thiophene core, the resulting C8-ITCC-Cl acceptor exhibited
red-shifted absorption and downshifted energy levels relative
to those of the nonchlorinated analogue, C8-ITCC, due to the strong
electron-withdrawing ability of the chlorine atoms as revealed by
theoretical calculations. Moreover, the noncovalent interactions induced
by the chlorine atoms enabled improved lamellar and π–π
stacking of C8-ITCC-Cl, leading to a higher electron mobility of 6.6
× 10–4 cm2 V–1 s–1 and a fill factor of 73% of the PBDB-TF:C8-ITCC-Cl
devices. Consequently, a high power conversion efficiency of 12.7%
was achieved by the C8-ITCC-Cl-based devices, which outperformed the
C8-ITCC-based ones (10.8%). This work highlights the potentials of
halogenated thiophene end groups for highly crystalline A-D-A-type
non-fullerene acceptors.
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chlorine atomsC 8-ITCC devicesabsorptionCrystalline Alkylated Non-Fullerene AcceptorsPBDB-TFpower conversion efficiencydownshifted energy levelsthiophene end groupsnovel chlorinated thiophene end groupEfficient Organic Solar Cells End group engineeringC 8-ITCCA-D-A-type non-fullerene acceptorsC 8-ITCC acceptorChlorinated Thiophene End Groups
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