Abstract
Two nonfused ring electron acceptors (NFREAs), BTh-OC8-2F and DTh-OC8-2F, with different molecular shapes are designed and synthesized. Both acceptors can form planar molecular shapes by the assistance of S···O intramolecular interactions. Differently, BTh-OC8-2F, with a linear molecular backbone and two trans-arranged side chains at the core unit, exhibits much stronger crystallinity than DTh-OC8-2, with a C-shape molecular shape and two cis-arranged steric side chains at the core unit. Thus, the DTh-OC8-2F based blend film displays a better nanoscale phase separation, more suppressed charge recombination, more efficient exciton dissociation, and lower nonradiative energy loss. Organic solar cells based on DTh-OC8-2F can deliver a power conversion efficiency of 14.13%, which is much higher than BTh-OC8-2F based ones (11.95%) and is also one of the highest values reported for organic solar cells based on NFREAs.
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