High Performance Electron Acceptors Containing Transition Metals.

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, The Centre of Nanoscale Science and Technology and Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center (RECAST), College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China.

Published: June 2025


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A novel molecular platform characteristic of multiple transition metals (CH─Zn, CH─Ni, CH─Pt) on conjugated backbones is first established as high-performance electron acceptors. The CH─Pt-based ternary organic photovoltaics render an excellent power conversion efficiency surpassing 20%, more importantly, the unexplored dependency of central metals on intrinsic physicochemical properties of acceptors, nanoscale morphologies of donor/acceptor blends and final photovoltaic outcomes is fully disclosed. By demonstrating such a rare case of metal-containing acceptor, our work provides insight into whether metal complexes can serve as the building blocks of high-performance acceptors and gives guidance to rational design of metal-containing acceptors.

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