Effects of shortened alkyl chains on solution-processable small molecules with oxo-alkylated nitrile end-capped acceptors for high-performance organic solar cells

Advanced Energy Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 17, 2014, Pages

  Deng, Dan ^a,b   Zhang, Yajie ^a   Yuan, Liu ^a,b   He, Chang ^c   Lu, Kun ^a   Wei, Zhixiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Alkyl chain effects; Organic solar cells; Oxo alkylated nitrile; Self assembly; Small molecules

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTALLINITY; CYANIDES; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULES; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ALKYL CHAIN; BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; CONJUGATED BACKBONES; GRAZING INCIDENCE X-RAY DIFFRACTION; OXO-ALKYLATED NITRILE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SMALL MOLECULES; SOLUTION PROCESSABLE;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84916943687     PISSN: 16146832     EISSN: 16146840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201400538     Document Type: Article

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