Electron-deficient truxenone derivatives and their use in organic photovoltaics

Christian B. Nielsen; Eszter Voroshazi; Sarah Holliday; Kjell Cnops; David Cheyns; Iain McCulloch

doi:10.1039/c4ta01653j

Electron-deficient truxenone derivatives and their use in organic photovoltaics

Christian B. Nielsen^*, Eszter Voroshazi, Sarah Holliday, Kjell Cnops, David Cheyns, Iain McCulloch

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A series of electron-deficient truxenone derivatives are investigated as fullerene alternatives in organic photovoltaic applications. These new electron-accepting molecules have easily tunable absorption profiles, more than ten-fold higher absorptivities than PCBM, slightly higher electron affinities than PCBM and clearly defined and highly reversible reductive characteristics. Fabrication of efficient bilayer solar cells with a subphthalocyanine (SubPc) donor illustrates the promise of this class of materials as electron acceptors in organic solar cells. This journal is

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	12348-12354
Number of pages	7
Journal	JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume	2
Issue number	31
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ta01653j
State	Published - Aug 21 2014
Externally published	Yes

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