Issue 48, 2014
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Corannulene derivatives as non-fullerene acceptors in solution-processed bulk heterojunction solar cells†

Ru-Qiang Lu,‡a   Yu-Qing Zheng,‡b   Yi-Nyu Zhou,a   Xiao-Yun Yan,a   Ting Lei,b   Ke Shi,b   Yan Zhou,b   Jian Pei,*b   Laura Zoppi,c   Kim K. Baldridge,*c   Jay S. Siegeld  and  Xiao-Yu Cao*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry for Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, P. R. China
E-mail: xcao@xmu.edu.cn

b Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), The Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of The Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
E-mail: jianpei@pku.edu.cn

c Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
E-mail: kimb@oci.uzh.ch

d School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, A210/Building 24, 92 Weijin Road, Nankai District, Tianjin, P. R. China

Abstract

Corannulene derivatives were used in organic solar cells for the first time. Using Cor-PI and Cor-NI as acceptors, we achieved power conversion efficiencies up to 0.32% and 1.03%, suggesting potential applications of these fullerene segments as non-fullerene acceptors.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4TA05310A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Oct 2014
Accepted
27 Oct 2014
First published
28 Oct 2014

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014,2, 20515-20519

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Corannulene derivatives as non-fullerene acceptors in solution-processed bulk heterojunction solar cells

R. Lu, Y. Zheng, Y. Zhou, X. Yan, T. Lei, K. Shi, Y. Zhou, J. Pei, L. Zoppi, K. K. Baldridge, J. S. Siegel and X. Cao, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 20515 DOI: 10.1039/C4TA05310A

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