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PffBT4T-2OD Based Solar Cells With Aryl-Substituted

PffBT4T-2OD Based Solar Cells With Aryl-Substituted

Hugo Gaspar, Flávio Figueira, Karol Strutyński, Manuel Melle-Franco, Dzmitry Ivanou, João P C Tomé, Carlos M Pereira, Luiz Pereira, Adélio Mendes, Júlio C Viana, Gabriel Bernardo

Materials (Basel). 2019 Dec 8;12(24):4100.

PMID: 31817967

Abstract:

Novel C60 and C70 N-methyl-fulleropyrrolidine derivatives, containing both electron withdrawing and electron donating substituent groups, were synthesized by the well-known Prato reaction. The corresponding highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO)/lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy levels were determined by cyclic voltammetry, from the onset oxidation and reduction potentials, respectively. Some of the novel fullerenes have higher LUMO levels than the standards PC61BM and PC71BM. When tested in PffBT4T-2OD based polymer solar cells, with the standard architecture ITO/PEDOT:PSS/Active-Layer/Ca/Al, these fullerenes do not bring about any efficiency improvements compared to the standard PC71BM system, however they show how the electronic nature of the different substituents strongly affects the efficiency of the corresponding organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices. The functionalization of C70 yields a mixture of regioisomers and density functional theory (DFT) calculations show that these have systematically different electronic properties. This electronic inhomogeneity is likely responsible for the lower performance observed in devices containing C70 derivatives. These results help to understand how new fullerene acceptors can affect the performance of OPV devices.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP1644164624	PffBT4T-2OD		1644164-62-4	Price

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