Synthesis and photovoltaic properties of novel monoadducts and bisadducts based on amide methanofullerene

Four new [6,6]-phenyl-C(61) and C(71) butylsaure n-dibutyl amides (PCBDBA) with mono- and bis-adduction on C(60) and C(70) cages, respectively, have been synthesized as models to study the effect of the mono- and bis-adduction on fullerene cages on device performance when used as electron acceptors with the donor of regioregular P3HT in bulkheterojunction organic photovoltaics (BHJ-OPV). The optoelectronic, electrochemistry, and photovoltaic properties of these mono- and bis-products were fully investigated. The best device performance of these fullerene derivatives were obtained from the two monoadducts with power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 1.77% for C(60) derivative and 1.90% for C(70) derivative, respectively, which are close to PCBM's 2.43%. The results revealed the structure-function relationship among the monoadduct and bisadduct derivatives of C(60) and C(70) with the BHJ-OPV performance.