Impact of end-group modifications and planarity on BDP-based non-fullerene acceptors for high-performance organic solar cells by using DFT approach.
BDP-based small molecules
Computational study
Molecular planarity parameter
Reorganization energies
Journal
Journal of molecular modeling
ISSN: 0948-5023
Titre abrégé: J Mol Model
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9806569
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 Nov 2022
22 Nov 2022
Historique:
received:
01
08
2022
accepted:
09
11
2022
entrez:
23
11
2022
pubmed:
24
11
2022
medline:
26
11
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
With the aim to enhance the photovoltaic properties of organic solar cells (OSCs), seven new non-fullerene acceptors (K1-K7) have been designed by end-group modifications of benzo[2,1-b:3,4-b']bis(4H-dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]pyrrole) (BDP)-based small molecule "MH" (which is taken as our reference R) using computational techniques. To investigate their various optoelectronic parameters, DFT studies were applied using the B3LYP functional at 6-31G (d, p) basis set. The measurement of molecular planarity parameter (MPP) and span of deviation from plane (SDP) confirmed the planar geometries of these structures resulting in enhanced conjugation. Frontier molecular orbital (FMO) and density of states (DOS) analyses confirmed shorter band gaps of K1-K7 as compared to R, which promotes charge transfer in them. Optical properties demonstrated that these compounds have absorption range from 692 to 711 nm, quite better than the 684 nm of reference R. Molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) and Mulliken' charge distribution analysis also revealed the presence of epic charge separation in these structures. K1-K7 showed enhanced LHE values as compared to R putting emphasis on their better abilities to produce charge carrier by absorption of light. Reorganization energies showed that all newly designed compound could have better rate of charge carrier mobility (except K4) than R. Calculations of open-circuit voltage (V
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pubmed: 36416987
doi: 10.1007/s00894-022-05382-7
pii: 10.1007/s00894-022-05382-7
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