Abstract
AbstractPristine fullerene C60 is an excellent electron transport material for state‐of‐the‐art inverted structure perovskite solar cells (PSCs), but its low solubility leaves thermal evaporation as the only method for depositing it into a high‐quality electron transport layer (ETL). To address this problem, we herein introduce a highly soluble bowl‐shaped additive, corannulene, to assist in C60‐assembly into a smooth and compact film through the favorable bowl‐ball interaction. Our results show that not only corannulene can dramatically enhance the film formability of C60, it also plays a critical role in forming C60‐corannulene (CC) supramolecular species and in boosting intermolecular electron transport dynamics in the ETL. This strategy has allowed CC devices to deliver high power conversion efficiencies up to 21.69 %, which is the highest value among the PSCs based on the solution‐processed‐C60 (SP‐C60) ETL. Moreover, the stability of the CC device is far superior to that of the C60‐only device because corannulene can retard and curb the spontaneous aggregation of C60. This work establishes the bowl‐assisted ball assembly strategy for developing low‐cost and efficient SP‐C60 ETLs with high promise for fully‐SP PSCs.
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