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Rohan J Kumar1, Jegadesan Subbiah, Andrew B Holmes
1School of Chemistry, Bio21 Institute, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia ; CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Private Bag 10, Clayton South, Victoria 3169, Australia.
Abstract:
Self-complementary hydrogen-bonding domains were incorporated as the electron deficient unit in "push-pull", p-type small molecules for organic photovoltaic active layers. Such compounds were found to enhance the fill factor, compared with similar non-self-organized compounds reported in the literature, leading to higher device efficiencies. Evidence is presented that the ability of these molecules to form one-dimensional hydrogen-bonded chains and subsequently exhibit hierarchical self-assembly into nanostructured domains can be correlated with improved device efficiency.
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