Pyran-annulated perylene diimide derivatives as non-fullerene acceptors for high performance organic solar cells

Gang Li; Yu Zhang; Tao Liu; Shuaihua Wang; Dandan Li; Jiewei Li; Fengting Li; Lian-Ming Yang; Zhenghui Luo; Chuluo Yang; He Yan; Pin Hao; Qiaoyan Shang; Bo Tang

doi:10.1039/C8TC02823K

Pyran-annulated perylene diimide derivatives as non-fullerene acceptors for high performance organic solar cells†

Gang Li,‡^a Yu Zhang,‡^a Tao Liu,‡*^b Shuaihua Wang,^a Dandan Li,^a Jiewei Li,*^c Fengting Li,^d Lian-Ming Yang,

^d Zhenghui Luo,^e Chuluo Yang,^e He Yan,

*^b Pin Hao,^a Qiaoyan Shang^a and Bo Tang

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^a College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong, Institute of Materials and Clean Energy, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, P. R. China
E-mail: ligang@sdnu.edu.cn, tangb@sdnu.edu.cn

^b Department of Chemistry and Energy Institute, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
E-mail: hyan@ust.hk, liutaozhx@ust.hk

^c Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Jiangsu National Synergetic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials (SICAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), 30 South Puzhu Road, Nanjing, P. R. China
E-mail: iamjwli@njtech.edu.cn

^d Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

^e Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Abstract

There has been growing interest in the effectual strategy of constructing non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells that may overcome the defect of traditional fullerene-based acceptors. Herein, two novel push–pull (acceptor–donor–acceptor) type small-molecule acceptors, that is, TPA-PDI₂ and TPA-PDI₃, with triphenylamine (TPA) as the core unit and pyran-annulated perylene diimides (Py-PDIs) as peripheral groups are designed and synthesized for non-fullerene organic solar cells (OSCs). After device optimization, OSCs based on TPA-PDI₃ demonstrate good device performance with a power conversion efficiency (PCE) as high as 5.84%, surpassing the TPA-PDI₂-based counterparts fabricated under identical conditions (1.314% PCE). The high efficiency for TPA-PDI₃ can be attributed to the complementary absorption spectra with the donor material (PBDB-T), balanced carrier transport and favorable morphologies. To the best of our knowledge, this PCE of 5.84% is among the highest values based on ethynyl-functionalized TPA-shaped non-fullerene acceptors so far.

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Pyran-annulated perylene diimide derivatives as non-fullerene acceptors for high performance organic solar cells†

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