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Impact of self-assembly on the photovoltaic properties of a small molecule oligothiophene donor
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posted on 2020-01-01, 00:00 authored by A K Hundal, A Agarwal, M A Jameel, S Ali, Jingyu Chen, N Kaur, L Jones, Jingliang LiJingliang Li, S J Langford, Akhil Gupta© 2019 International Solar Energy Society The positive impact of self-assembly on the photovoltaic properties of a donor-π-acceptor oligothiophene molecule coded as CP3, which contains a barbituric acid as a terminal acceptor unit and triphenylamine as donor, enabling hydrogen-bonded spherulites to assemble in its films is described. The hydrogen-bonded supramolecular array of barbiturated-oligothiophene molecules were directly visualized by scanning electron microscopy. Bulk-heterojunction solar cells comprising CP3 and the fullerene PC61BM show a power conversion efficiency of 6.31%, which is markedly higher than a structural analogue CP4, which comprises a N-ethylrhodanine terminal acceptor unit incapable of participating in the same degree of self-assembly, supporting the impact of self-assembly in BHJ devices.
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Solar EnergyVolume
195Pagination
223 - 229Publisher
ElsevierLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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0038-092XLanguage
engPublication classification
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