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  • High‐Performance Ladder‐Typ...
    Tang, Changquan; Ma, Xiaoling; Wang, Jin‐Yun; Zhang, Xue; Liao, Ruochuan; Ma, Yunlong; Wang, Peng; Wang, Pengsong; Wang, Tao; Zhang, Fujun; Zheng, Qingdong

    Angewandte Chemie International Edition, August 23, 2021, Volume: 60, Issue: 35
    Journal Article

    Nonfullerene acceptors (MQ3, MQ5, MQ6) are synthesized using asymmetric and symmetric ladder‐type heteroheptacene cores with selenophene heterocycles. Although MQ3 and MQ5 are constructed with the same number of selenophene heterocycles, the heteroheptacene core of MQ5 is end‐capped with selenophene rings while that of MQ3 is flanked with thiophene rings. With the enhanced noncovalent interaction of O⋅⋅⋅Se compared to that of O⋅⋅⋅S, MQ5 shows a bathochromically shifted absorption band and greatly improved carrier transport, leading to a higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.64 % compared to MQ3, which shows a PCE of 13.51 %. Based on the asymmetric heteroheptacene core, MQ6 shows an improved carrier transport induced by the reduced π–π stacking distance, related with the increased dipole moment in comparison with the nonfullerene acceptors based on symmetric cores. MQ6 exhibits a PCE of 16.39 % with a VOC of 0.88 V, a FF of 75.66 %, and a JSC of 24.62 mA cm−2. Selenophene end‐capped asymmetric heteroheptacene core is used to construct an efficient nonfullerene acceptor (MQ6) which shows increased carrier transport due to the enhanced O⋅⋅⋅Se intramolecular noncovalent interaction as well as the increased dipole moment. MQ6 exhibits an outstanding efficiency of 16.39 % when blended with a wide band gap copolymer.