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Rational design of bis(4-methoxyphenyl)amine-based molecules with different π-bridges as hole-transporting materials for efficient perovskite solar cells
Source:Dyes and Pigments, Volume 139
Author(s): Xiaorui Liu, Chengzhi Huang, Ming Li
Exploration on alternative organic hole-transporting materials (HTMs) especially for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has attracted great attention recently. In this work, a strategy to tune π-bridged units of the small molecular HTM which consists of bis(4-methoxyphenyl)amine as arm and spiro[fluorene-9,9'-xanthene] as π-bridge were theoretically presented for improvement of the PSC efficiency. The π-bridged tunings could promote the contribution of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) to delocalize throughout whole molecules in order to be favorable for enhancing the hole transfer integral and hole mobility. Compared with the parent HTM, the new designed HTMs in PSC applications exhibit better performance with higher HOMO energy levels, larger Stokes shifts, little exciton binding energy, better stability and higher hole mobility. Therefore, the strategy on basis of modulating the π-bridge units of small molecules can effectively change the performance of HTMs and thereby provide a useful guideline of π-bridge screening for the design of excellent HTMs in PSC applications. In view of the excellent properties, the designed molecules as HTMs can act as a promising candidates for providing a large efficiency in PSC applications.
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Plasmonic Nanosnowmen with a Conductive Junction as Highly Tunable Nanoantenna Structures and Sensitive, Quantitative and Multiplexable Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Probes
Be2C Monolayer with Quasi-Planar Hexacoordinate Carbons: A Global Minimum Structure
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The design of new materials is an important subject in order to attain new properties and applications, and it is of particular interest when some peculiar topological properties such as reduced dimensionality and rule-breaking chemical bonding are involved. In this work, we designed a novel two-dimensional (2D) inorganic material, namely Be2C monolayer, by comprehensive density functional theory (DFT) computations. In Be2C monolayer, each carbon atom binds to six Be atoms in an almost planar fashion, forming a quasi-planar hexacoordinate carbon (phC) moiety. Be2C monolayer has good stability and is the lowest-energy structure in 2D space confirmed by a global minima search based on the particle-swarm optimization (PSO) method. As a semiconductor with a direct medium band gap, Be2C monolayer is promising for applications in electronics and optoelectronics.
Promising material: In the two-dimensional Be2C monolayer, each carbon atom binds to six Be atoms forming a quasi-planar hexacoordinate carbon moiety (see structure; C black, Be green). Be2C monolayer has good stability and is the global minimum structure in 2D space. Further, it is semiconducting with a moderate direct band gap.