Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (7): 20230068.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20230068

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Effect of Alkyl-chain Branching Position on Molecular Aggregation of All-fused-ring Molecules

ZHANG Yongqian1,2, ZHU Xiaoyu1,2, MIAO Junhui1, LIU Jun1,2(), WANG Lixiang1,2   

  1. 1.State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry,Changchun Institute of,Applied Chemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Changchun 130022,China
    2.University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China
  • Received:2023-02-15 Online:2023-07-10 Published:2023-03-24
  • Contact: LIU Jun E-mail:liujun@ciac.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    the Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province, China(20230101122JC);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22135007);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2019YFA0705900)

Abstract:

All-fused-ring molecules are a novel type of electron acceptor materials with excellent intrinsic stability for organic solar cell(OSC) applications. In this work, we developed two all-fused-ring small molecular acceptors, FM5 and FM6, with different branching positions of alkyl chains on the pyrrole motif. The effects of branching points of the alkyl chains on optical and electronic properties, molecular stacking of the molecules were investigated. Compared with FM5 with 2nd-position branched alkyl chains, FM6 with 3rd-position branched alkyl chains exhibits the blue-shifted absorption and higher crystallinity. Due to the large steric hindrance caused by alkyl chains at 2nd branching sites, FM5 exhibits appropriate molecular aggregation and thus favorable film morphology in the blend film. Due to the suitable blend film morphology, the OSC device using FM5 as electron acceptor exhibits a power conversion efficiency(PCE) of 9.03%, which is higher than that of FM6(6.67%). These results demonstrate that the side chain engineering is an effective strategy for tuning the molecular aggregation, crystalline and blend film morphology for all-fused-ring molecules.

Key words: All-fused-ring molecule, Organic solar cell, Electron acceptor, Film morphology, Branching positions of alkyl chain

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