A Twisted Thieno[3,4‐b]thiophene‐Based Electron Acceptor Featuring a 14‐π‐Electron Indenoindene Core for High‐Performance Organic Photovoltaics |
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| Authors: | Sheng jie Xu Zichun Zhou Wuyue Liu Zhongbo Zhang Feng Liu Hongping Yan Xiaozhang Zhu |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;2. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China;4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA |
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| Abstract: | With an indenoindene core, a new thieno[3,4‐b ]thiophene‐based small‐molecule electron acceptor, 2,2′‐((2Z,2′Z)‐((6,6′‐(5,5,10,10‐tetrakis(2‐ethylhexyl)‐5,10‐dihydroindeno[2,1‐a]indene‐2,7‐diyl)bis(2‐octylthieno[3,4‐b]thiophene‐6,4‐diyl))bis(methanylylidene))bis(5,6‐difluoro‐3‐oxo‐2,3‐dihydro‐1H‐indene‐2,1‐diylidene))dimalononitrile ( NITI ), is successfully designed and synthesized. Compared with 12‐π‐electron fluorene, a carbon‐bridged biphenylene with an axial symmetry, indenoindene, a carbon‐bridged E ‐stilbene with a centrosymmetry, shows elongated π‐conjugation with 14 π‐electrons and one more sp3 carbon bridge, which may increase the tunability of electronic structure and film morphology. Despite its twisted molecular framework, NITI shows a low optical bandgap of 1.49 eV in thin film and a high molar extinction coefficient of 1.90 × 105m ?1 cm?1 in solution. By matching NITI with a large‐bandgap polymer donor, an extraordinary power conversion efficiency of 12.74% is achieved, which is among the best performance so far reported for fullerene‐free organic photovoltaics and is inspiring for the design of new electron acceptors. |
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| Keywords: | indenoindene nonfullerene acceptors organic solar cells power conversion efficiency thieno[3,4‐b]thiophene |
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