What makes fullerene acceptors special as electron acceptors in organic solar cells and how to replace them

Advanced Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1038-1041

  Liu, Tao ^a   Troisi, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

electron transfer; excited state; Marcus theory

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ELECTRON ACCEPTORS; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON TRANSFER; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; LOW-LYING EXCITED STATE; MARCUS THEORY; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL;

ELECTRONS; EXCITED STATES; FULLERENES;

SOLAR CELLS;

FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY;

ELECTRONS; FULLERENES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84874083372     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201203486     Document Type: Article

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