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A diketopyrrolopyrrole molecule end-capped with a furan-2-carboxylate moiety: The planarity of molecular geometry and photovoltaic properties
Fu, Lei,Fu, Weifei,Cheng, Pei,Xie, Zhixin,Fan, Congcheng,Shi, Minmin,Ling, Jun,Hou, Jianhui,Zhan, Xiaowei,Chen, Hongzheng
, p. 6589 - 6597 (2014)
We designed and synthesized a diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) molecule with a fully-planar molecular geometry, 3,6-bis{5-[(ethylfuran-2-carboxylate)-2-yl] thiophene-2-yl}-2,5-bis(2-ethylhexyl)pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-dione (DPP(CF)2), for solution-processable organic solar cells (OSCs). It is theoretically calculated that the dihedral angles between the two furan-2-carboxylate end-groups and the DPP core are both only 0.56°. Due to this negligible steric distortion, the molecular conformation of DPP(CF) 2 can be considered fully coplanar, leading to a higher crystallinity for the DPP(CF)2 film. As a result, the hole mobility of DPP(CF)2 is one order of magnitude higher than that of the DPP derivative with thiophene-2-carboxylate as the end-group (DPP(CT)2). DPP(CF)2 exhibits both a low optical band gap (Eg) of 1.60 eV and a low-lying highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level of -5.33 eV, implying that DPP(CF)2 is a promising electron donor for OSCs. OSCs with DPP(CF)2 or DPP(CT)2 as the electron donor and [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM) as the electron acceptor were fabricated. It is found that the DPP(CF) 2-based devices exhibit much better photovoltaic performance than the DPP(CT)2-based devices, with the highest power conversion efficiency of 5.37% and a short-circuit current density of 11.4 mA cm-2. This phenomenon can be ascribed to the superior charge-transporting ability of DPP(CF)2 due to its fully-planar molecular geometry. This journal is the Partner Organisations 2014.
Diketopyrrolopyrrole-based acceptor-acceptor conjugated polymers: The importance of comonomer on their charge transportation nature
Ge, Cong-Wu,Mei, Chong-Yu,Ling, Jun,Zhao, Fu-Gang,Li, Hong-Jiao,Liang, Long,Wang, Jin-Tu,Yu, Jin-Cheng,Shao, Wei,Xie, Yong-Shu,Li, Wei-Shi
, p. 2356 - 2366 (2014/07/21)
Besides the donor-acceptor (D-A) type, acceptor-acceptor (A-A) polymers are another class of important alternative conjugated copolymers, but have been less studied in the past. In this study, two kinds of A-A polymers, P1 and P2, have been designed and synthesized based on diketopyrrolopyrrole in combination with the second electron-deficient unit, perylenediimide or thieno[3,4-c] pyrrole-4,6-dione. UV-vis absorption spectroscopy revealed that these two kinds of polymers have a band gap of 1.28-1.33 eV. Their highest occupied molecular orbital and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy levels are around -5.6 and -4.0 eV for P1 polymers, whereas -5.4 and -3.7 eV for P2 polymers, respectively. Density functional theory study disclosed that P1 backbone is in a vastly twisting state, whereas that of P2 is completely planar. Furthermore, organic field-effect transistor devices were fabricated using these two kinds of polymers as the active material. Of interest, the devices based on P1 polymers displayed n-channel behaviors with an electron mobility in the order of 10 -4 cm2 V-1 s-1. In contrast, the P2-based devices exhibited only p-channel charge transportation characteristics with a hole mobility in the order of 10-3 cm2 V -1 s-1.