Nonfullerene acceptors based on extended fused rings flanked with benzothiadiazolylmethylenemalononitrile for polymer solar cells

Autor: Wei Ma, Xiaowei Zhan, Yao Wu, Yifan Wang, Jiayu Wang, Rong Li, Mingyu Zhang, Huitao Bai, Pei Cheng, Yang Wu
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 3:20758-20766
ISSN: 2050-7496
2050-7488
Popis: Two novel A–D–A type molecules IDT–2BM and IDTT–2BM with extended fused-ring indacenodithiophene (IDT) or indacenodithienothiophene (IDTT) units as cores and strong electron-withdrawing unit 2-(benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazol-4-ylmethylene)malononitrile (BM) as the end-capping group were synthesized and investigated as electron acceptors in solution-processed polymer solar cells (PSCs). IDT–2BM and IDTT–2BM exhibited strong and broad absorption from 300 to 800 nm, and appropriate LUMO (−3.8 eV) and HOMO (−5.5 to −5.6 eV) levels matching with the classical polymer donor PBDTTT-C-T. IDT–2BM and IDTT–2BM films exhibited intrinsic electron mobilities of about 3.7 × 10−6 and 1.0 × 10−5 cm2 V−1 s−1, respectively. Fullerene-free PSCs employing PBDTTT-C-T as the donor and IDT–2BM or IDTT–2BM as the acceptor afforded power conversion efficiencies of 4.26% and 4.81%, respectively.
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