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A new nonfullerene acceptor based on perylene diimides for organic solar cells

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Here we reported a nonfullerene electron acceptor based on perylene diimides, BP-PDI4, with a biphenyl core and four bulky PDI arms. BP-PDI4 showed a twisted 3D structure which successfully suppressed the large aggregation of perylene diimides in active layer. BP-PDI4 exhibited a wide optical band gap of 2.11 eV. Low-bandgap donor materials, namely PTB7-Th and PBDTTT-C-T, were chosen as donor materials for complementary absorption and well-matched energy levels. A PCE of 2.95% was achieved with Voc of 0.79 V, Jsc of 10.61 mA cm−2 and FF of 35.2%, when PTB7-Th was used as donor material.

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This work was supported by Wuhan Yellow Crane Program for Excellent Talents, Hubei Technology Innovation Major Project (2016AAA030), the Foundation for Outstanding Youth Innovative Research Groups of Higher Education Institution in Hubei Province (T201706), the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of Hubei Natural Science Foundation of China (2017CFA009), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51703172), Youth Project of Hubei Provincial Department of Education (Q20171501) and Science Foundation of Wuhan Institute of Technology (k201629).

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  1. School of Material Science and Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, 430073, People’s Republic of China

    Zhitian Liu, Yao Wu, Linhua Zhang, Di Zeng, Xiaolu Zhang, Qi Zhang & Xiang Gao

  2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Plasma Chemistry and Advanced Materials, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, 430073, People’s Republic of China

    Zhitian Liu & Xiang Gao

  3. CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-based Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, People’s Republic of China

    Yao Wu & Huanxiang Jiang

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Liu, Z., Wu, Y., Jiang, H. et al. A new nonfullerene acceptor based on perylene diimides for organic solar cells. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 29, 10362–10368 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-018-9094-0

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