Brush‐Like Tetrameric Acceptors Achieving over 20% Efficiency With Exceptional Stability and Mechanical Robustness
Well-defined high-molecular-weight acceptors have recently emerged as promising materials for organic solar cells (OSCs), offering high power conversion efficiency (PCE), long-term stability, and intrinsic stretchability. However, the limited synthetic accessibility of these materials hampers their large-scale application. Herein, we propose an efficient "brush-like" synthetic strategy to construct high-molecular-weight acceptors (diYCl, teYCl, and pYCl) with precisely controlled molecular structures. Our results reveal that the well-defined molecular architecture and enlarged molecular sizes effectively suppress molecular diffusion, thereby improving thermodynamic stability. Among them, teYCl achieves the optimal balance between efficiency and stability, affording a PCE of 18.02% in D18/teYCl-based quasiplanar heterojunction (Q-PHJ) OSCs. The device also exhibits remarkable operational durability, with T<sub>80</sub> lifetimes of 5000 h at 65°C and 61 600 h under dark storage. Moreover, when teYCl is employed as a coacceptor in Q-PHJ architectures, the PCE further rises to 20.19%, representing the highest efficiency reported for such bilayer-dominated Q-PHJ devices. The enlarged molecular size also endows the OSCs with enhanced mechanical robustness, with teYCl- and pYCl-based stretchable devices maintaining 80% of their initial PCEs at 31% and 40% strain, respectively. This study offers a practical molecular design strategy for developing high-efficiency, stable, and intrinsically stretchable acceptors toward next-generation OSCs.
Authors
- Xuechun Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2172-7861)
- Ming Shao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7686-8784)
- Fan He
- Di Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7921-6781)
- Xue Lai
- Junyin Dong
- Yunpeng Wang
- Zhi Wang
- Jiaying Wu
- Zhiqiang Wang
- Haonan Lin
Institutions
- Southern University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (CN)
- South China University of Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Published
- 2026-02-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.4369405
- Primary Topic
- Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Guangdong Science and Technology Department
- Southern University of Science and Technology
- Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau