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Simple-structured small molecule acceptors constructed by a weakly electron-deficient thiazolothiazole core for high-efficiency non-fullerene organic solar cells

Wenhong Peng, Guangjun Zhang, Lin Shao, Chao Ma, Bin Zhang, Weijie Chi, Qiang Peng, Weiguo Zhu

Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 2018 · 79 citations · 42 references

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Abstract

A novel strategy is proposed to construct simple-structured SMAs using a weakly electron-deficient thiazolothiazole (TTz) core. The highest PCE of 8.77% is recorded for TTz1-based OSCs, which is the highest efficiency to date among non-fullerene OSCs with simple-structured SMAs.

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