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The crucial role of end group planarity for fused-ring electron acceptors in organic solar cells
Abstract
Planar acceptor moieties in FREAs are necessary, as expanding the π–π stacking by only 1 Å disrupts the packing and decreases performance.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
- Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Lab (ORaCEL), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
- Biomolecular and Organic Electronics, IFM, Linköping University, Linköping 58183, Sweden
- Research Computing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA
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- Materials Chemistry Frontiers
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- Journal Name: Materials Chemistry Frontiers Journal Volume: 3 Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 2052-1537
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- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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- United Kingdom
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- English
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Rech, Jeromy J., Bauer, Nicole, Dirkes, David, Kaplan, Joseph, Peng, Zhengxing, Zhang, Huotian, Ye, Long, Liu, Shubin, Gao, Feng, Ade, Harald, and You, Wei. The crucial role of end group planarity for fused-ring electron acceptors in organic solar cells. United Kingdom: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1039/C9QM00314B.
Rech, Jeromy J., Bauer, Nicole, Dirkes, David, Kaplan, Joseph, Peng, Zhengxing, Zhang, Huotian, Ye, Long, Liu, Shubin, Gao, Feng, Ade, Harald, & You, Wei. The crucial role of end group planarity for fused-ring electron acceptors in organic solar cells. United Kingdom. doi:10.1039/C9QM00314B.
Rech, Jeromy J., Bauer, Nicole, Dirkes, David, Kaplan, Joseph, Peng, Zhengxing, Zhang, Huotian, Ye, Long, Liu, Shubin, Gao, Feng, Ade, Harald, and You, Wei. Thu .
"The crucial role of end group planarity for fused-ring electron acceptors in organic solar cells". United Kingdom. doi:10.1039/C9QM00314B.
@article{osti_1523293,
title = {The crucial role of end group planarity for fused-ring electron acceptors in organic solar cells},
author = {Rech, Jeromy J. and Bauer, Nicole and Dirkes, David and Kaplan, Joseph and Peng, Zhengxing and Zhang, Huotian and Ye, Long and Liu, Shubin and Gao, Feng and Ade, Harald and You, Wei},
abstractNote = {Planar acceptor moieties in FREAs are necessary, as expanding the π–π stacking by only 1 Å disrupts the packing and decreases performance.},
doi = {10.1039/C9QM00314B},
journal = {Materials Chemistry Frontiers},
number = 8,
volume = 3,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {2019},
month = {7}
}
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