Advanced Functional Materials
Advanced Functional Materials
5 years ago

Side Group Engineering of Small Molecular Acceptors for High-Performance Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells: Thiophene Being Superior to Selenophene

Side Group Engineering of Small Molecular Acceptors for High-Performance Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells: Thiophene Being Superior to Selenophene
Fujun Zhang, Zhenghui Luo, Kailong Wu, Wei Gao, Chuluo Yang, Yang Zou, Ruijie Ming, Qiaoshi An, Dongjun Xie
Side group of ITIC-like small molecular acceptor (SMA) plays a critical role in crystallization property. In this article, two new SMAs with n-hexylthienyl and n-hexylselenophenyl as side chain, namely ITCPTC-Th and ITCPTC-Se, are designed and synthesized by employing newly developed thiophene-fused ending group (CPTCN). And thiophene and selenophene side group substituted effects of SMA-based fullerene-free polymer solar cells (PSCs) are investigated. A stronger σ-inductive effect between selenophene side group and electron-donating backbone endows ITCPTC-Se with better optical absorption and higher LUMO level, ITCPTC-Th-based PSCs deliver a higher power conversion efficiency of 10.61%. Charge transport and collection, recombination loss mechanism, and morphology of blend films are intensively studied. These results confirm that side group substituted effects of SMAs are multiple and thiophene is a superior option to selenophene as aromatic side group of ITIC-like SMAs. Two new small molecular acceptors (SMAs), ITCPTC-Th and ITCPTC-Se, are designed and synthesized to investigate thiophene and selenophene side group substituted effects. A polymer solar cell (PSC) based on ITCPTC-Th achieves high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 10.61%, which are significantly higher than that of ITCPTC-Se-based PSC. This confirms that thiophene is superior to selenophene as side group of ITIC-like SMAs.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201702194

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