Origin of effects of additive solvent on film-morphology in solution-processed nonfullerene solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 6462-6471

  Chen, Yuxia ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Zhan, Chuanlang ^a   Yao, Jiannian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

additive; energy transfer; exciton harvest; nonfullerene acceptor; solubility

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULES; MORPHOLOGY; SOLAR CELLS; SOLUBILITY;

1 ,8-OCTANEDITHIOL; 1-CHLORONAPHTHALENE; ADDITIVE CONTENTS; NONFULLERENE ACCEPTOR; ORGANIC COMPONENTS; SMALL MOLECULE SYSTEMS; SMALL MOLECULES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED;

ADDITIVES;

EID: 84926289656     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am507581w     Document Type: Article

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