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Molecularly Engineered Low-Cost Organic Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells: The Substituent Effect on Non-fused Three-Dimensional Systems

Molina, Desire
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Sheibani, Esmaeil
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Yang, Bowen  
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March 28, 2022
Acs Applied Energy Materials

In this work, we describe a new class of non-fused 3D asymmetric compounds (named 1, 2, 3, and 4) as low-cost organic hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The fundamental understanding of the influence of the methylthio and methoxy group substitutions on the fluorene moiety has been analyzed, as well as the position of methoxy groups in the aromatic rings of triphenylamine pending groups (para or meta). Experimental results demonstrate that the position of the methoxy group in the triphenylamine pending group influences decisively the thermal properties and the amplitude of the electronic bandgap, hydrophobicity, film formation, and thermal stress stability. The presence of methylthio or methoxyl substituents in the 2,7-positions of the fluorene moiety mainly affects the electrochemical properties, hole mobility, and morphology of the hole-transporting layer (HTL). Thus, maxima sunlight-to-electricity power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 17.7 and 17.8% have been obtained in PSCs with methoxy groups in the fluorene moieties (1 and 3), respectively. Consequently, compound 1-based PSCs exhibit a better stability than the other three materials and the standard HTM-spiro-OMeTAD-based devices.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/acsaem.1c03775
Web of Science ID

WOS:000813043900001

Author(s)
Molina, Desire
Sheibani, Esmaeil
Yang, Bowen  
Mohammadi, Hajar
Ghiasabadi, Maryam
Xu, Bo
Suo, Jiajia  
Carlsen, Brian  
Vlachopoulos, Nick  
Zakeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed  
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Date Issued

2022-03-28

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
Acs Applied Energy Materials
Volume

5

Issue

3

Start page

3156

End page

3165

Subjects

Chemistry, Physical

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Energy & Fuels

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry

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Energy & Fuels

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Materials Science

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hole-transporting materials

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perovskite solar cells

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3d non-fused fluorene structure

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low-cost

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stability

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n-annulated perylene

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open-circuit voltage

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highly efficient

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performance

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