Determination of the Mono and Dibromo Derivatives Ratio Resulting from Semiconductor Bromination Using Ultraviolet-visible Absorption Spectroscopy and Gaussian Peak Fitting.

The chemical-industrial production of organic semiconductors urgently needs a cheap and fast approach to determine the components' proportion of the reaction system. In the present work, the Gaussian peak fitting method was applied to process monobromo and dibromo-substituted perylene diimide mixed solutions' ultraviolet-visible absorption curves. The functional relationship formula between the peak-intensity ratio and the component ratio is then concluded.

In-situ ion-exchange synthesis AgS modified SnS nanosheets toward highly photocurrent response and photocatalytic activity.

Heterojunction photocatalyst systems are deemed to be an excellent option to improve the photocatalytic behavior of a material. In this paper, AgS/SnS heterojunction photocatalysts were prepared by a simple in-situ ion exchange method from SnS nanosheets. The AgS/SnS composite photoanode exhibits 13.

Additive-assisted control over phase-separated nanostructures by manipulating alkylthienyl position at donor backbone for solution-processed, non-fullerene, all-small-molecule solar cells.

A non-fullerene, all-small-molecule solar cell (NF-SMSC) device uses the blend of a small molecule donor and a small molecule acceptor as the active layer. Aggregation ability is a key factor for this type of solar cell. Herein, we used the alkylthienyl unit to tune the aggregation ability of the diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based small molecule donors.

Photocurrent enhancement in diketopyrrolopyrrole solar cells by manipulating dipolar anchoring terminals on alkyl-chain spacers.

We chose DPP-BDT-DPP {DPP=diketopyrrolopyrrole, BDT=4,8-di-[2-(2-ethylhexyl)-thienyl]benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene} as a model backbone and varied the anchoring groups [C5 H11 , COOCH3 , and SiCH3 (OSiCH3 )2 ] terminated on the N-substituted alkyl-chain spacer of the DPP units to study the effect of anchoring terminals on the morphology of blend film and on the device performances of bulk heterojunction solar cells. By replacing the nonpolar C5 H11 anchoring terminal with the polar COOCH3 anchoring terminal leads to an enhancement in the short-circuit current density (Jsc ) (4.62 vs.

A potential perylene diimide dimer-based acceptor material for highly efficient solution-processed non-fullerene organic solar cells with 4.03% efficiency.

A highly efficient acceptor material for organic solar cells (OSCs)--based on perylene diimide (PDI) dimers--shows significantly reduced aggregation compared to monomeric PDI. The dimeric PDI shows a best power conversion efficiency (PCE) approximately 300 times that of the monomeric PDI when blended with a conjugate polymer (BDTTTT-C-T) and with 1,8-diiodooctane as co-solvent (5%). This shows that non-fullerene materials also hold promise for efficient OSCs.

Impact of molecular solvophobicity vs. solvophilicity on device performances of dimeric perylene diimide based solution-processed non-fullerene organic solar cells.

Because of their outstanding molecular optoelectronic properties, perylene diimides (PDIs) are promising alternatives to the commonly used PCBM. However, the overly strong aggregation ability, poor solution-processability and compatibility of PDIs severely limit their photovoltaic applications. We turned to borrowing the amphiphile concept to improve these supramolecular properties.

Solution-processed DPP-based small molecule that gives high photovoltaic efficiency with judicious device optimization.

A solution-processed diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based small molecule, namely BDT-DPP, with broad absorption and suitable energy levels has been synthesized. The widely used solvents of chloroform (CF) and o-dichlorobenzene (o-DCB) were used as the spin-coating solvent, respectively, and 1,8-diiodooctane (DIO) was used as additive to fabricate efficient photovoltaic devices with BDT-DPP as the donor material and PC71BM as the acceptor material. Devices fabricated from CF exhibit poor fill factor (FF) of 43%, low short-circuit current density (Jsc) of 6.

Fine-tuning device performances of small molecule solar cells via the more polarized DPP-attached donor units.

Three solution-processable small molecules of DPPT, DPPSe and DPPTT were synthesized by Stille coupling through attaching donor units of thiophene (T), selenophene (Se) and thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (TT) to the diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) core, respectively. Replacement of the T donors with the more polarized Se units results in a balance between the a and b direction packing and an obvious increase of the power conversion efficiency (PCE) from 1.90% to 2.