Designing triazatruxene-based donor materials with promising photovoltaic parameters for organic solar cells
To address the increasing demand of efficient photovoltaic compounds for modern hi-tech applications, efforts have been made herein to design and explore triazatruxene-based novel donor materials with greater efficiencies. Five new molecules, namely M1-M5 , were designed by structural modification o...
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Veröffentlicht in: | RSC advances 2019-08, Vol.9 (45), p.2642-26418 |
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Zusammenfassung: | To address the increasing demand of efficient photovoltaic compounds for modern hi-tech applications, efforts have been made herein to design and explore triazatruxene-based novel donor materials with greater efficiencies. Five new molecules, namely
M1-M5
, were designed by structural modification of acceptor moiety (rhodanine-3-acetic acid) of well known experimentally synthesized JY05 dye (reference
R
), and their optoelectronic properties are evaluated to be used as donor molecules in organic solar cells. In these molecules
M1-M5
, triazatruxene acts as a donor unit and benzene spaced different end-capped moieties including 2-(4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-thioxothiazolidin-3-yl)acetic acid (A1), (
E
)-2-(4-(1-cyano-2-methoxy-2-oxoethylidene)-2-thioxothiazolidin-3-yl)acetic acid (A2), (
Z
)-2-(3′-ethyl-4′-oxo-2,2′-dithioxo-3′,4′-dihydro-2′
H
,5
H
-[4,5′-bithiazolylidene]-3(2
H
)-yl)acetic acid (A3), (
Z
)-2-(4′-(dicyano-methylene)-3′-ethyl-2,2′-dithioxo-3′,4′-dihydro-2′
H
,5
H
-[4,5′-bithiazol-ylidene]-3(2
H
)-yl)acetic acid (A4) and 2-((4
Z
,4′
E
)-4′-(1-cyano-2-methoxy-2-oxoethylidene)-3′-ethyl-2,2′-dithioxo-3′,4′-dihydro-2′
H
,5
H
-[4,5′-bithiazolylidene]-3(2
H
)-yl)acetic acid (A5) respectively, as acceptor units. The electronic, photophysical and photovoltaic properties of the designed molecules
M1-M5
have been compared with reference molecule
R
. All designed molecules exhibit reduced energy gap in the region of 1.464-2.008 eV as compared to reference molecule (2.509 eV). Frontier molecular orbital (FMO) surfaces confirm the transfer of charge from donor to acceptor units. All designed molecules
M1-M5
exhibited an absorption spectrum in the visible region and they were broader as compared to that of reference
R
. Especially,
M5
with highest
λ
max
value 649.26 nm and lowest transition energy value 1.90 eV was accredited to the strong electron withdrawing end-capped acceptor moiety A5. The highest value of open circuit voltage (
V
oc
) 1.02 eV with respect to HOMO
donor
-LUMO
BTP-4Cl
was shown by
M5
among all investigated molecules which was 0.15 V larger than reference molecule
R
. The designed molecule
M5
is proven to be the best candidate for both electron and hole transport mobilities due to its smallest
λ
e
(0.0212 eV) and
λ
h
(0.0062 eV) values among all studied molecules.
Five new molecules (
M1-M5
) were designed by structural modification of acceptor moiety (rhodanine-3-acetic acid) of well-known synthesized dye JY05, and their optoelectronic prop |
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ISSN: | 2046-2069 2046-2069 |
DOI: | 10.1039/c9ra03856f |