Acceptor-donor-acceptor small molecules based on indacenodithiophene for efficient organic solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8426-8433

  Bai, Huitao ^a,c   Wang, Yifan ^a,c   Cheng, Pei ^a,c   Li, Yongfang ^a   Zhu, Daoben ^a   Zhan, Xiaowei ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

alkyl cyanoacetate; indacenodithiophene; rhodanine; small molecule solar cells

Indexed keywords

MOLECULES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS;

ALKYL CYANOACETATE; CHLOROFORM SOLUTIONS; DECOMPOSITION TEMPERATURE; INDACENODITHIOPHENE; MOLAR EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; RHODANINE; SMALL MOLECULES;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84902520084     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501316y     Document Type: Article

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