Strain and Hückel aromaticity: driving forces for a promising new generation of electron acceptors in organic electronics

…, X Gong, M Tong, AJ Heeger, F Wudl

Index: Brunetti; Gong; Tong; Heeger; Wudl, Fred Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2010 , vol. 49, # 3 p. 532 - 536

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Abstract

The tangible possibility of fabricating flexible, lightweight organic photovoltaic devices (OPVs) by using roll-to-roll coaters, similar to those used in the production of print magazines and newspapers, renders this technology a valid alternative to expensive crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells.[1–3] The most widely used active layer for these OPVs, the so-called bulk heterojunction (BHJ),[4, 5] is based on photoinduced charge transfer ...