Organic electron transport materials

• Joseph Cameron and
• Peter J. Skabara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 672–674, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.60

• , meaning organic materials can be used effectively in a range of applications. For example, while a non-fullerene acceptor material might not be suitable as an electron transport layer in OPVs due to dissolution of layers, it can used in perovskite solar cells where it can be successfully deposited through

• overcome in developing materials for emerging technologies, researchers working on these issues should take inspiration from the rapid progress that was achieved in the development of non-fullerene acceptor materials as a replacement for PC61BM and PC71BM in organic solar cells which revitalised the

Introducing a new 7-ring fused diindenone-dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]thiophene unit as a promising component for organic semiconductor materials

• Valentin H. K. Fell,
• Joseph Cameron,
• Alexander L. Kanibolotsky,
• Eman J. Hussien and
• Peter J. Skabara

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2022, 18, 944–955, doi:10.3762/bjoc.18.94

• 2021, Hou et al. reported a ternary OPV, using a mixture of the novel PBQx-TF (16) donor polymer and the non-fullerene acceptor eC9-2Cl (17), shown in Figure 7. In addition, a third material, F-BTA3 (18) was blended in [32]; all three materials are fused thiophene systems. The resulting OPV achieved a

• polymer 11, also featuring a fused thiophene system, showed a remarkable PCE of 6.80%, the then best value for non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells [17]. The fluorinated derivative of ITIC, IT-4F, achieved, with donor polymer 13, PCEs in OPVs up to 17% [8]. The non-fullerene acceptor Y6 (14) [30

Synthesis and characterization of fluorinated azadipyrromethene complexes as acceptors for organic photovoltaics

• Forrest S. Etheridge,
• Roshan J. Fernando,
• Sandra Pejić,
• Matthias Zeller and
• Geneviève Sauvé

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 1925–1938, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.182

• absorber; non-fullerene acceptor; zinc(II) complex; Introduction Azadipyrromethenes (ADPs) (Figure 1a) are a class of monoanionic bidentate ligands with strong absorption in the visible and near IR range. Their absorbance and emission properties can be readily tuned through structural modifications and