Heptacyclic S,N-Heteroacene-Based Near-Infrared Nonfullerene Acceptor Enables High-Performance Organic Solar Cells with Small Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital Offsets

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (46) ◽  
pp. 51776-51784
Author(s):  
Shanshan Ma ◽  
Shihao Wu ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Yu Song ◽  
Haoran Tang ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Minas M. Stylianakis ◽  
Dimitriοs M. Kosmidis ◽  
Katerina Anagnostou ◽  
Christos Polyzoidis ◽  
Miron Krassas ◽  
...  

A novel solution-processed graphene-based material was synthesized by treating graphene oxide (GO) with 2,5,7-trinitro-9-oxo-fluorenone-4-carboxylic acid (TNF-COOH) moieties, via simple synthetic routes. The yielded molecule N-[(carbamoyl-GO)ethyl]-N’-[(carbamoyl)-(2,5,7-trinitro-9-oxo-fluorene)] (GO-TNF) was thoroughly characterized and it was shown that it presents favorable highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy levels to function as a bridge component between the polymeric donor poly({4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-2,6-diyl}{3-fluoro-2-[(2-ethylhexyl)carbonyl] thieno[3,4-b]thiophenediyl}) (PTB7) and the fullerene derivative acceptor [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric-acid-methylester (PC71BM). In this context, a GO-TNF based ink was prepared and directly incorporated within the binary photoactive layer, in different volume ratios (1-3% ratio to the blend), for the effective realization of inverted ternary organic solar cells (OSCs) of the structure ITO/PFN/PTB7:GO-TNF:PC71BM/MoO3/Al. The addition of 2% v/v GO-TNF ink led to a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.71% that was enhanced by ~13% as compared to the reference cell.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1800307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan-Huan Gao ◽  
Yanna Sun ◽  
Xiangjian Wan ◽  
Xin Ke ◽  
Huanran Feng ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 646
Author(s):  
Shabaz Alam ◽  
M. Shaheer Akhtar ◽  
Abdullah ◽  
Eun-Bi Kim ◽  
Hyung-Shik Shin ◽  
...  

In order to develop new and effective donor materials, a planar donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) type small organic molecule (SOM), 2-(4-fluorobenzoyl)-3-(5″-hexyl-[2,2′:5′,2″-terthiophen]-5-yl) acrylonitrile, named as H3T-4-FOP, was synthesized by the reaction of 4-fluorobenzoylacetonitrile (as acceptor unit) and hexyl terthiophene (as donor unit) derivatives. Promising optical, solubility, electronic and photovoltaic properties were observed for the H3T-4-FOP SOM. Significantly, the presence of 4-fluorobenzoylacetonitrile as an acceptor unit in H3T-4-FOP SOM tuned the optical band gap to ~2.01 eV and procured the reasonable energy levels as highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of −5.27 eV and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) −3.26 eV. The synthesized H3T-4-FOP SOM was applied as a donor material to fabricate solution-processed bulk heterojunction organic solar cells (BHJ-OSCs) with an active layer of H3T-4-FOP: PC61BM (1:2, w/w) and was validated as having a good power conversion efficiency (PCE) of ~4.38%. Our studies clearly inspire for future designing of multifunctional groups containing the 4-fluorobenzoylacetonitrile based SOM for high performance BHJ-OSCs.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minas M. Stylianakis ◽  
Dimitrios M. Kosmidis ◽  
Katerina Anagnostou ◽  
Christos Polyzoidis ◽  
Miron Krassas ◽  
...  

A novel solution-processed, graphene-based material was synthesized by treating graphene oxide (GO) with 2,5,7-trinitro-9-oxo-fluorenone-4-carboxylic acid (TNF-COOH) moieties, via simple synthetic routes. The yielded molecule N-[(carbamoyl-GO)ethyl]-N′-[(carbamoyl)-(2,5,7-trinitro-9-oxo-fluorene)] (GO-TNF) was thoroughly characterized and it was shown that it presents favorable highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy levels to function as a bridge component between the polymeric donor poly({4,8-bis[(2-ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-2,6-diyl}{3-fluoro-2-[(2-ethylhexyl)carbonyl] thieno[3,4-b]thiophenediyl}) (PTB7) and the fullerene derivative acceptor [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric-acid-methylester (PC71BM). In this context, a GO-TNF based ink was prepared and directly incorporated within the binary photoactive layer, in different volume ratios (1%–3% ratio to the blend) for the effective realization of inverted ternary organic solar cells (OSCs) of the structure ITO/PFN/PTB7:GO-TNF:PC71BM/MoO3/Al. The addition of 2% v/v GO-TNF ink led to a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.71% that was enhanced by ~13% as compared to the reference cell.


2021 ◽  
pp. 109269
Author(s):  
Xinyue Cui ◽  
Muhammad Bilal Ahmed Qureshi ◽  
Hao Lu ◽  
Hang Wang ◽  
Yahui Liu ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 030-037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianyun Zhang ◽  
Wenrui Liu ◽  
Shengjie Xu ◽  
Xiaozhang Zhu

Recently, by elaborately designing nonfullerene acceptors and selecting suitable polymer donors great progresses have been made towards binary organic solar cells (OSCs) with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 15%. Ternary organic photovoltaics by introducing a third component into the host binary system is recognized to be highly effective to elevate the performance through extending the light absorption, manipulating the recombination behavior of the carriers, and improving the morphology of the active layer. In this work, we synthesized a new electron-acceptor ZITI-4F matching it with the wide-bandgap polymer donor PBDB-T The PBDB-T:ZITI-4F-based OSC showed a high PCE of 12.33%. After introducing 40% of PC71BM as the third component, the ternary device achieved an improved PCE of 13.40% with simultaneously improved photovoltaic parameters. The higher performance of the ternary device can be attributed to the improved and more balanced charge mobility, reduced bimolecular recombination, and more favorable morphology. These results indicate that the cooperation of a fullerene-based acceptor and a nonfullerene acceptor to fabricate ternary OSCs is an effective approach to optimizing morphology and therefore to increase the performance of OSCs.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (34) ◽  
pp. 10498-10506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bei Wang ◽  
Yingying Fu ◽  
Qingqing Yang ◽  
Jiang Wu ◽  
He Liu ◽  
...  

Incorporating an infrared nonfullerene acceptor O6T-4F enhances the exciton utilization and extends the absorption, leading to an increased PCE of organic solar cells.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (35) ◽  
pp. 18115-18126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haimei Wu ◽  
Baofeng Zhao ◽  
Weiping Wang ◽  
Zhaoqi Guo ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
...  

Over the past few years, it has been proven that deepening the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) levels of conjugated polymers is one of the most successful strategies to develop novel materials for high performance bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells.


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