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Zhang Z, Tang Z, Wang K, Wang P, Yang J. Effect of steric hindrance and number of substituents on the transfer and interface properties of Y-shaped hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cells. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:25850-25861. [PMID: 37724976 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03322h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/21/2023]
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Alkyl sulfoxide groups were introduced into the branch chain terminals of a hole-transporting material (HTM) Z34 with different numbers and positions to design four new Y-shaped HTMs: ZT1, ZT2, ZT3 and ZT4. The effects of steric hindrance and number of substituents on the transfer and interface properties of the Y-shaped HTMs were investigated theoretically. Calculations reveal that the introduction of alkyl sulfoxide increases the distribution of intramolecular holes and orbital overlap between the HOMOs of the dimers. The electronic coupling was greatly improved owing to the increased distribution of holes and orbital overlap. ZT1 shows small steric hindrance when one alkyl sulfoxide is introduced into the top branch chain, which leads to translation π-π stacking. ZT2 and ZT4 show slightly greater steric hindrance when two or four alkyl sulfoxide groups are introduced into the side branch chains, which leads to face-to-face stacking. While ZT3 shows large steric hindrance when three alkyl sulfoxide groups are introduced into the top and side branch chains, which causes head-to-head stacking. With the increase in number of alkyl sulfoxide groups, the steric hindrance of the molecule increases and the hole mobility decreases. ZT1 achieves the highest hole mobility (2.63 × 10-2 m2 V-1 s-1) that is two orders of magnitude higher than that of Z34 (1.36 × 10-4 m2 V-1 s-1) owing to the optimal balance between the number of alkyl sulfoxide groups and steric hindrance. The HTM/CH3NH3PbI3 adsorbed system was also simulated to characterize the interface properties. Enhanced interface interaction was achieved in the HTM/perovskite systems of ZT2 and ZT3. The orbital distribution of the HTM/perovskite cluster indicates that the new HTMs can promote hole migration and prevent internal electron-hole recombination. The present work not only evaluates the reliable relationship between the structure and properties of new HTMs, but also provides a valuable design strategy for efficient Y-shaped HTMs.
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- Zemin Zhang
- School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Liupanshui Normal University, Liupanshui, 553004, China.
- Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Real-Time Analytical Chemistry (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- School of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Liupanshui Normal University, Liupanshui 553004, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Liupanshui Normal University, Liupanshui, 553004, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Liupanshui Normal University, Liupanshui, 553004, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Liupanshui Normal University, Liupanshui, 553004, China.
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Etabti H, Fitri A, Benjelloun AT, Benzakour M, Mcharfi M. Designing and Theoretical Study of Dibenzocarbazole Derivatives Based Hole Transport Materials: Application for Perovskite Solar Cells. J Fluoresc 2023; 33:1201-1216. [PMID: 36629966 DOI: 10.1007/s10895-023-03144-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2022] [Accepted: 01/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Hole-transporting materials (HTMs) are essentials in producing the efficient and stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs). In this article, we provided the investigation results of electronic structures and photophysical characteristics of eight designed derivatives (HTM1a-HTM4a and HTM1b-HTM4b) of a dibenzocarbazole-based compound HTMR. HTMR was modified by substituting the terminal groups located on the diphenylamine moieties with two and four electron donor groups (ED1-ED4) of different character. Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) have been used to optimize the geometry of the ground state and for excited state calculations, respectively. The nature and number of electron donor substitutions on the frontier molecular orbitals (FMOs), ionization potential (IP), electronic affinity (AE), maximum absorption wavelengths ([Formula: see text], solubility ([Formula: see text], stability (η), exciton binding energy ([Formula: see text], reorganization energies ([Formula: see text] and charge mobility (k) are examined and discussed in detail. On this basis, the features such as proper HOMO levels (-5.464 and -4.745 eV), comparable hole mobilities ([Formula: see text] (4.632 × 1013 and 1.177 × 1014 s-1), a significant [Formula: see text] (367.13 and 398.27 nm), and high η (1.440 and 1.667 eV) have made these structures suitable hole transport materials (HTMs) to provide perovskite solar cells with a high efficiency.
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- Hanane Etabti
- LIMAS, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco.
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- LIMAS, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco
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- LIMAS, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco
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- LIMAS, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco
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- LIMAS, Faculty of Sciences Dhar El Mahraz, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco
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Quezada-Borja JD, Rodríguez-Valdez LM, Palomares-Báez JP, Chávez-Rojo MA, Landeros-Martinez LL, Martínez-Ceniceros MC, Rojas-George G, García-Montoya IA, Sánchez-Bojorge NA. Design of new hole transport materials based on triphenylamine derivatives using different π-linkers for the application in perovskite solar cells. A theoretical study. Front Chem 2022; 10:907556. [PMID: 35991614 PMCID: PMC9389019 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2022.907556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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New organic molecules containing five different compounds, commonly called p-linkers, located between the triphenylamine units, were theoretically designed and analyzed in order to be proposed as new hole transport materials (HTMs) in perovskite solar cells, in total ten new molecules were analyzed. The electronic, optical and hole transport properties were determined, similarly, the relationship of these properties with their molecular structure was also investigated by Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Density Functional Tight Binding (DFTB) calculations. Eight of the ten analyzed compounds exhibited the main absorption band out of the visible region; therefore these compounds did not present an overlap with the absorption spectra of the typical methylammonium lead iodide (MAPI) hybrid-perovskite. The results showed that the Highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) levels of the compounds are higher than the perovskite HOMO level, and in some cases these are even higher than the Spiro-OMeTAD HOMO. The calculated electronic couplings and the reorganization energy values provided useful information in order to determine if the systems were hole or electron transport materials.
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- José David Quezada-Borja
- Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Circuito Universitario, Chihuahua, México
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- Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Circuito Universitario, Chihuahua, México
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- Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Circuito Universitario, Chihuahua, México
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- Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Circuito Universitario, Chihuahua, México
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- CONACYT Research Fellow, Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados (CIMAV), S.C., Miguel de Cervantes, Complejo Industrial Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México
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- Departamento de Ciencias Químico-Biológicas, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, México
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- Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, Circuito Universitario, Chihuahua, México
- *Correspondence: Nora Aydeé Sánchez-Bojorge,
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Zhang Z, Tang Z, Zhou Y, Wang P, Yang J, Zhu S. Intermolecular hydrogen bond and π-π stacking improve electron mobility of phenanthroline-based electron-transporting materials. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2022.113865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Coppola C, Pecoraro A, Munoz-Garcia AB, Infantino R, Dessì A, Reginato G, Basosi R, Sinicropi A, Pavone M. Electronic structure and interfacial features of triphenylamine- and phenothiazine-based hole transport materials for methylammonium lead iodide perovskite solar cells. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:14993-15002. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01270g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Recently, great research efforts have been devoted to perovskite solar cells (PSCs) leading to sunlight-to-power conversion efficiencies above 25%. However, several barriers still hinder the full deployment of these devices....
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Zhou Y, Zhang Z, Cui J. Effect of π-linker extension on property of fluorene-based hole-transporting materials for perovskite solar cells. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2020.113049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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