State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering , Lanzhou University , Lanzhou 730000 , China.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education , Peking University , Beijing 100871 , China.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2018 Mar 21;10(11):9587-9594. doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b17961. Epub 2018 Mar 6.
Much effort has been devoted to the development of new donor materials for small-molecule organic solar cells due to their inherent advantages of well-defined molecular weight, easy purification, and good reproducibility in photovoltaic performance. Herein, we report two small-molecule donors that are compatible with both fullerene and nonfullerene acceptors. Both molecules consist of an (E)-1,2-di(thiophen-2-yl)ethane-substituted (TVT-substituted) benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene (BDT) as the central unit, and two rhodanine units as the terminal electron-withdrawing groups. The central units are modified with either alkyl side chains (DRBDT-TVT) or alkylthio side chains (DRBDT-STVT). Both molecules exhibit a medium bandgap with complementary absorption and proper energy level offset with typical acceptors like PCBM and IDIC. The optimized devices show a decent power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 6.87% for small-molecule organic solar cells and 6.63% for nonfullerene all small-molecule organic solar cells. Our results reveal that rationally designed medium-bandgap small-molecule donors can be applied in high-performance small-molecule organic solar cells with different types of acceptors.
由于小分子有机太阳能电池具有分子量明确、易于纯化以及光电性能重现性好等固有优势,因此人们投入了大量精力来开发新型供体材料。在此,我们报告了两种与富勒烯和非富勒烯受体都兼容的小分子供体。这两个分子都由一个(E)-1,2-二(噻吩-2-基)乙烷取代的(TVT 取代)苯并[1,2-b:4,5-b']二噻吩(BDT)作为中心单元,两个罗丹宁单元作为末端电子受主基团。中心单元用烷基侧链(DRBDT-TVT)或烷基硫代侧链(DRBDT-STVT)进行修饰。这两个分子都具有中等带隙,与典型的受体如 PCBM 和 IDIC 具有互补的吸收和适当的能级偏移。优化后的器件在小分子有机太阳能电池中表现出 6.87%的良好功率转换效率(PCE),在非富勒烯全小分子有机太阳能电池中表现出 6.63%的良好功率转换效率。我们的结果表明,合理设计的中等带隙小分子供体可以应用于具有不同类型受体的高性能小分子有机太阳能电池中。