Nature Communications (May 2022)

Asymmetric electron acceptor enables highly luminescent organic solar cells with certified efficiency over 18%

  • Chengliang He,
  • Zeng Chen,
  • Tonghui Wang,
  • Ziqiu Shen,
  • Yaokai Li,
  • Jiadong Zhou,
  • Jianwei Yu,
  • Huiyu Fang,
  • Yuhao Li,
  • Shuixing Li,
  • Xinhui Lu,
  • Wei Ma,
  • Feng Gao,
  • Zengqi Xie,
  • Veaceslav Coropceanu,
  • Haiming Zhu,
  • Jean-Luc Bredas,
  • Lijian Zuo,
  • Hongzheng Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30225-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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High-performance organic solar cells call for novel designs of acceptor molecules. Here, He et al. design and synthesize a non-fullerene acceptor with an asymmetric structure for diverse donor:acceptor interfacial conformations and report a certificated power conversion efficiency of 18.2%.