The crucial role of intermolecular π-π Interactions in A-D-A-type electron acceptors and their effective modulation

Bowei Gao; Huifeng Yao; Bomee Jang; Jie Zhu; Runnan Yu; Yong Cui; Fenghao Wang; Junxian Hou; Han Young Woo; Jianhui Hou

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The crucial role of intermolecular π-π Interactions in A-D-A-type electron acceptors and their effective modulation

Bowei Gao
, Huifeng Yao^*
, Bomee Jang
, Jie Zhu
, Runnan Yu
, Yong Cui
, Fenghao Wang
, Junxian Hou
, Han Young Woo
, Jianhui Hou

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Here, the crucial role of intermolecular π-π interactions in A-D-A-type acceptors is examined and a simple yet effective modulation method is presented. By side chain manipulation, two small molecule acceptors, IDT-C6 and IDT-PhC6, are designed and synthesized with different crystalline morphologies. Since n-hexyl side chains have less steric hindrance than hexylphenyl side chains, IDT-C6 exhibits enhanced intermolecular π-π interactions relative to IDT-PhC6. Benefiting from the improved charge transport properties of the IDT-C6-based device, a high PCE of 12.5% is recorded, whereas those of the IDT-PhC6-based device delivers a moderate PCE of just 5.6%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2664-2670
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume	6
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ta10461h
Publication status	Published - 2018

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