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- Title
Noncovalently fused-ring electron acceptors with near-infrared absorption for high-performance organic solar cells.
- Authors
Huang, Hao; Guo, Qingxin; Feng, Shiyu; Zhang, Cai'e; Bi, Zhaozhao; Xue, Wenyue; Yang, Jinjin; Song, Jinsheng; Li, Cuihong; Xu, Xinjun; Tang, Zheng; Ma, Wei; Bo, Zhishan
- Abstract
Non-fullerene fused-ring electron acceptors boost the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells, but they suffer from high synthetic cost and low yield. Here, we show a series of low-cost noncovalently fused-ring electron acceptors, which consist of a ladder-like core locked by noncovalent sulfur–oxygen interactions and flanked by two dicyanoindanone electron-withdrawing groups. Compared with that of similar but unfused acceptor, the presence of ladder-like structure markedly broadens the absorption to the near-infrared region. In addition, the use of intramolecular noncovalent interactions avoids the tedious synthesis of covalently fused-ring structures and markedly lowers the synthetic cost. The optimized solar cells displayed an outstanding efficiency of 13.24%. More importantly, solar cells based on these acceptors demonstrate very low non-radiative energy losses. This research demonstrates that low-cost noncovalently fused-ring electron acceptors are promising to achieve high-efficiency organic solar cells. Recently, the non-fullerene acceptors with fused rings enable high-efficiency organic solar cells but they are not ideal in terms of synthetic cost and yield. Here, Huang et al. report 'less fused' acceptors with non-covalent S⋅⋅⋅O interactions and solar cell efficiency of up to 13%.
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-019-11001-6