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Spirofluorene based small molecules as an alternative to traditional non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

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Nowadays, world is moving from conventional energy sources to non-conventional energy sources like solar energy, wind power, hydropower and those energy sources which can be regenerate as they are consumes. The current share of solar energy in global energy production is substantially increasing due to its cheap source as compared to conventional sources. With the passage of time, scientist's developed large variety of solar cells but now demand for solar cells (SCs) is to develop new, cheap and more technologically advance low cost small molecule based organic solar cells with non-fullerene acceptors for mass production at industrial scale. Herein current research work, we designed four Spirofluorene based 3D configurated small molecules (M1–M4) and evaluated its different optoelectronic properties by using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT). After this theoretical study, we believes that this study would be beneficial in future investigations of donor–acceptor type materials for organic photovoltaic devices.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38040, Pakistan

    Mazhar Abbas & Usman Ali

  2. Beijing National Laboratories for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratories of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China

    Usman Ali

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China

    Usman Ali & Muhammad Faizan

  4. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, People’s Republic of China

    Muhammad Bilal Ahmed Siddique

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Abbas, M., Ali, U., Faizan, M. et al. Spirofluorene based small molecules as an alternative to traditional non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells. Opt Quant Electron 53, 246 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-020-02672-3

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