Citation: Kaiming Yang, Min Lv, Yanhong Chang, Kun Lu, Zhixiang Wei. Oligomeric donor with appropriate crystallinity for organic solar cells[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2024, 35(2): 109018. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.109018 shu

Oligomeric donor with appropriate crystallinity for organic solar cells

Kaiming Yang ^{a, c, d, 1} ,
Min Lv ^{a, b, 1} ,
Yanhong Chang ^{c, d, *,} ,
Kun Lu ^{a, b, *,} ,
Zhixiang Wei ^{a, b}

a.
CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
b.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
c.
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
d.
Beijing Key Laboratory of Resource Treatment of Typical Industrial Pollutants, Beijing 100083, China

yhchang@ustb.edu.cn

lvk@nanoctr.cn

Received Date: 24 May 2023
Revised Date: 29 August 2023
Accepted Date: 30 August 2023
Available Online: 4 September 2023

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Improving the performance of all-small-molecule organic solar cells (ASM-OSCs) largely depends on the design and application of novel donors with appropriate crystallinity. Extending molecular conjugation is an effective method for regulating molecular stacking and crystallinity. In this work, we successfully designed and synthesized two novel acceptor-donor-donor-donor-acceptor (A-D-D-D-A) type oligomeric donors with three dithieno[2,3-d:2’,3’-d’]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene (DTBDT) as the central unit, named as 3DTBDT-Cl and 3DTBDT, depending on with and without chlorine substitution on the thiophene side chains. We found that the introduction of chlorine atoms makes the blend films display stronger crystallinity but with large-scale phase separation morphology and more defects, which eventually leads to a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of only 10.83%, whereas the blend films based 3DTBDT with appropriate crystallinity achieved 13.74% PCE. Compared with 3DTBDT-Cl/L8-BO, the 3DTBDT/L8-BO films exhibited a nanoscale bi-continuous interpenetrating network morphology with a smaller domain size and more suitable crystallinity, which guarantees the corresponding devices obtained more efficient exciton dissociation, efficient charge transport, reduced bimolecular recombination, and performed more balanced carrier mobility. These results demonstrated that regulating the crystallinity of oligomeric donors to obtain the desired phase separation morphology in the blend films could facilitate further improving the performance of ASM-OSCs.
- Linked donor unit,
- Oligomeric donors,
- Crystallinity regulation,
- Organic solar cells
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