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Low-cost organic photovoltaic materials with great application potentials enabled by developing isomerized non-fused ring acceptors

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Benefitting from low cost and simple synthesis, simple structured non-fused ring acceptors (NFRAs) and polymer donors are crucial for the application of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, two isomerized NFRAs, namely 4T-FClFCl and 4T-2F2Cl, are designed with end-group engineering, which modulates the electrostatic potential distributions and crystallinity of acceptors, and accordingly, the A/A and D/A intermolecular interactions. The OSC based on 4T-2F2Cl with strong D/A interactions shows a record-high efficiency of 16.31% in blending with a low-cost polymer donor PTQ10, which shapes obviously improved bulkheterojunction (BHJ) networks blade-coated by non-halogenated solvent o-xylene, and thus significantly diminishes non-radiative recombination loss. A higher industrial figure of merit (i-FOM) of 0.46 for PTQ10:4T-2F2Cl in comparison with PTQ10:4T-FClFCl (i-FOM=0.29) is demonstrated owing to its superior device efficiency and operational stability. Note that the i-FOM of PTQ10:4T-2F2Cl is the highest value for OSCs reported so far. This work deepens the synergistic effect of the A/A and D/A interactions on achieving desired bulk heterojunction morphology and demonstrates a printable photovoltaic system for low-cost, high-efficiency, stable, and eco-friendly OSCs.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52061135206, 22279094) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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  1. The Institute for Advanced Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Yiming Shao, Rui Sun, Wei Wang, Xinrong Yang & Jie Min

  2. College of Chemistry, Green Catalysis Center, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Chenkai Sun

  3. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Chenkai Sun & Yongfang Li

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Shao, Y., Sun, R., Wang, W. et al. Low-cost organic photovoltaic materials with great application potentials enabled by developing isomerized non-fused ring acceptors. Sci. China Chem. 66, 1101–1110 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-022-1502-3

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