Intermediate-Sized Conjugated Donor Molecules for Organic Solar Cells: Comparison of Benzodithiophene and Benzobisthiazole-Based Cores
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Zhang, SiyuanZhang, Junxiang
Abdelsamie, Maged

Shi, Qinqin
Zhang, Yadong
Parker, Timothy C.

Jucov, Evgheni V.
Timofeeva, Tatiana V.

Amassian, Aram

Bazan, Guillermo C.

Blakey, Simon B.

Barlow, Stephen

Marder, Seth R.

KAUST Department
KAUST Solar Center (KSC)Material Science and Engineering Program
Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics Group
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2017-09-05Online Publication Date
2017-09-05Print Publication Date
2017-09-26Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/625759
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Two intermediate-sized donor molecules, BBTz-X and BDT-X, have been synthesized by the Stille coupling between 4-(4,4-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-6-(trimethylstannyl)-4H-silolo[3,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophen-2-yl)-7-(5′-hexyl-[2,2′-bithiophen]-5-yl)-[1,2,5]thiadiazolo[3,4-c]pyridine and either 4,8-bis(5-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl)-2,6-diiodobenzo[1,2-d:4,5-d′]bis(thiazole) or 2,6-dibromo-4,8-bis(5-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene, respectively. Both oxidation and reduction potentials for BBTz-X are anodically shifted relative to those for BDT-X, but the oxidation potential is more sensitive to the identity of the core; this is consistent with what is seen for DFT-calculated HOMO and LUMO energies and with a slightly blue-shifted absorption maximum for BBTz-X. Although DFT calculations, along with crystal structures of related compounds, suggest more planar molecular structures for BBTz-X than for BDT-X, film structures and the effects of various annealing processes on these films, as revealed by GIWAXS, are similar. The performance of BDT-X:PC61BM bulk-heterojunction solar cells is more sensitive to annealing conditions than that of BBTz-X:PC61BM cells, but under appropriate conditions, both yield power conversion efficiencies of >7%.Citation
Zhang S, Zhang J, Abdelsamie M, Shi Q, Zhang Y, et al. (2017) Intermediate-Sized Conjugated Donor Molecules for Organic Solar Cells: Comparison of Benzodithiophene and Benzobisthiazole-Based Cores. Chemistry of Materials 29: 7880–7887. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02665.Sponsors
The research was partly supported by the National Science Foundation, through the CCI Center for Selective C–H Functionalization (CHE-1205646 and CHE-1700982) and through the PREM program (DMR-1523611), and by the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, through Award No. N00014-14-1-0580 (CAOP MURI).Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Journal
Chemistry of MaterialsAdditional Links
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Zhang, S., Zhang, J., Abdelsamie, M., Shi, Q., Zhang, Y., Parker, T. C., Jucov, E. V., Timofeeva, T. V., Amassian, A., Bazan, G. C., Blakey, S. B., Barlow, S., & Marder, S. R. (2017). CCDC 1578533: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination [Data set]. Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5517/CCDC.CSD.CC1PZLFP. DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1pzlfp Handle: 10754/663862
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10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02665