Electron acceptors with varied linkages between perylene diimide and benzotrithiophene for efficient fullerene-free solar cells

B Wang, W Liu, H Li, J Mai, S Liu, X Lu, H Li… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we present two new electron acceptors, TriPDI and Fused-TriPDI, in which three
perylene diimide (PDI) moieties are tethered to a benzotrithiophene (BTT) core via either …

Alkynyl-functionalized pyrene-cored perylene diimide electron acceptors for efficient nonfullerene organic solar cells

F Tang, K Wu, Z Zhou, G Wang, B Zhao… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Integrating two or more perylene diimide (PDI) monomers through the single bond or ring
fusion forming a star-shaped structure is a useful strategy for designing high-efficiency …

Thermally durable nonfullerene acceptor with nonplanar conjugated backbone for high‐performance organic solar cells

HW Cho, NG An, SY Park, YS Shin… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) with acceptor–donor–acceptor (A–D–A) architecture, i‐IEICO‐
2F, based on 4, 9‐dihydro‐s‐indaceno [1, 2‐b: 5, 6‐b′] dithiophene as an electron …

Introducing an identical benzodithiophene donor unit for polymer donors and small-molecule acceptors to unveil the relationship between the molecular structure and …

Y Zhang, L Shi, T Yang, T Liu, Y Xiao, X Lu… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The side-chain conjugation strategy is adopted in the synthesis of heptacyclic non-fullerene
electron acceptors, ITIC2, ITIC-S, and ITIC-SF, for application in organic solar cells (OSCs) …

A ligand-free direct heteroarylation approach for benzodithiophenedione-based simple small molecular acceptors toward high efficiency polymer solar cells

Z Wu, Y Chen, L Zhang, D Yuan, R Qiu… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of nonfullerene acceptors has accelerated the improvement in the power
conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of polymer solar cells (PSCs) in the past five years. However …

Effect of a methyl thiophene-3-carboxylate bridge in an indacenodithiophene-based acceptor–donor–acceptor-type molecule on the performance of non-fullerene …

SH Park, GE Park, S Choi, YU Kim, SY Park… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
A new AbDbA-type n-type small molecule, IDT-3MT, was synthesized bearing a weak
acceptor thiophene-3-carboxylate bridge (3MT= b) between indacenodithiophene as a …

As‐cast ternary organic solar cells based on an asymmetric side‐chains featured acceptor with reduced voltage loss and 14.0% efficiency

X Chen, B Kan, Y Kan, M Zhang, SB Jo… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A new small‐molecule nonfullerene acceptor based on the benzo [1, 2‐b: 4, 5‐b′]
dithiophene (BDT) fused central core with asymmetrical alkoxy and thienyl side chains …

Synthesis and photovoltaic performance of a non-fullerene acceptor comprising siloxane-terminated alkoxyl side chain

Z Wu, R Qiu, H Jiang, Q Wang, Y Chen, H Liu, S Xie… - Organic …, 2021 - Elsevier
As an effective molecular modification strategy, side chain engineering has been widely
used in promoting the photovoltaic performance of non-fullerene acceptors. Herein, a novel …

Non-fullerene-acceptor-based bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells with efficiency over 7%

D Sun, D Meng, Y Cai, B Fan, Y Li… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A novel perylene bisimide (PBI) dimer-based acceptor material, SdiPBI-S, was developed.
Conventional bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells based on SdiPBI-S and the wide-band …

Recent progress on all‐small molecule organic solar cells using small‐molecule nonfullerene acceptors

B Kan, Y Kan, L Zuo, X Shi, K Gao - InfoMat, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, solution‐processed organic solar cells combining small‐molecule donor and
nonfullerene acceptor have achieved breakthrough results with the certified efficiency over …