Chemically driven supramolecular self-assembly of porphyrin donors for high-performance organic solar cells

Xuan Zhou; Wei Tang; Pengqing Bi; Lei Yan; Xingzhu Wang; Rick Wai Kwok Wong; Xiaotao Hao; Beng S Ong; Xunjin Zhu

doi:10.1039/c8ta04499f

Chemically driven supramolecular self-assembly of porphyrin donors for high-performance organic solar cells

Xuan Zhou, Wei Tang, Pengqing Bi, Lei Yan, Xingzhu Wang^*, Rick Wai Kwok Wong, Xiaotao Hao^*, Beng S Ong, Xunjin Zhu^*

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Supramolecular self-assembly of a novel acceptor-π-porphyrin-π-acceptor compound driven by intermolecular sulfur-sulfur interactions leads to the formation of J-aggregates composed of helical nanowire structures. These nanowires have exhibited interesting optical activity, and when utilized as a molecular electron donor with a fullerene acceptor in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells, a high photovoltaic power conversion efficiency of over 8% has been achieved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14675-14680
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume	6
Issue number	30
Early online date	30 Jun 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c8ta04499f
Publication status	Published - 14 Aug 2018

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