High Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cells due to Favored Interfacial Connection by a Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptor with Cross-Like Molecular Geometry

Sharapov, Valerii; Wu, Qinghe; Neshchadin, Andriy; Zhao, Donglin; Cai, Zhengxu; Chen, Wei; Yu, Luping

doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b03013

Title: High Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cells due to Favored Interfacial Connection by a Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptor with Cross-Like Molecular Geometry

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The non-fullerene electron acceptor, TPB, exhibits a unique cross-like molecular geometry which helps it to stay preferentially at the interfaces between PTB7-Th and PC₇₁BM, when it is used as the third component in ternary OPV cells. The four PDI units connected to TPB's core provide multiple contact points between PTB7-Th and PC₇₁BM phases, thus facilitating interfacial charge extraction and improving the overall PCE to 10.6% from 9.8% after 10% TPB was added as the third component. Here, this article describes detailed experimental results and a model to explain these observations.

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^[2]; Neshchadin, Andriy ^[1]; Zhao, Donglin ^[1];

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Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and The James Franck Inst.
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of Chemistry and The James Franck Inst.; Shantou Univ., Guangdong (China). Dept. of Chemistry and Key Lab. for Preparation and Application of Ordered Structural Materials of Guangdong Province
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division; Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Inst. for Molecular Engineering

Publication Date:: Tue May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018

Research Org.:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes (LEAP); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)

OSTI Identifier:: 1461470

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; SC0001059

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 21; Journal ID: ISSN 1932-7447

Publisher:: American Chemical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 25 ENERGY STORAGE

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                    Sharapov, Valerii, Wu, Qinghe, Neshchadin, Andriy, Zhao, Donglin, Cai, Zhengxu, Chen, Wei, and Yu, Luping. High Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cells due to Favored Interfacial Connection by a Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptor with Cross-Like Molecular Geometry.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
Web.  doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b03013.

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                    Sharapov, Valerii, Wu, Qinghe, Neshchadin, Andriy, Zhao, Donglin, Cai, Zhengxu, Chen, Wei, & Yu, Luping. High Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cells due to Favored Interfacial Connection by a Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptor with Cross-Like Molecular Geometry.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b03013

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                    Sharapov, Valerii, Wu, Qinghe, Neshchadin, Andriy, Zhao, Donglin, Cai, Zhengxu, Chen, Wei, and Yu, Luping. Tue .  
"High Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cells due to Favored Interfacial Connection by a Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptor with Cross-Like Molecular Geometry".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b03013.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1461470.

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  title        = {High Performance Ternary Organic Solar Cells due to Favored Interfacial Connection by a Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptor with Cross-Like Molecular Geometry},

  author       = {Sharapov, Valerii and Wu, Qinghe and Neshchadin, Andriy and Zhao, Donglin and Cai, Zhengxu and Chen, Wei and Yu, Luping},

  abstractNote = {The non-fullerene electron acceptor, TPB, exhibits a unique cross-like molecular geometry which helps it to stay preferentially at the interfaces between PTB7-Th and PC71BM, when it is used as the third component in ternary OPV cells. The four PDI units connected to TPB's core provide multiple contact points between PTB7-Th and PC71BM phases, thus facilitating interfacial charge extraction and improving the overall PCE to 10.6% from 9.8% after 10% TPB was added as the third component. Here, this article describes detailed experimental results and a model to explain these observations.},

  doi          = {10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b03013},

  journal      = {Journal of Physical Chemistry. C},

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  volume       = 122,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018},

  month        = {Tue May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018}

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