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Synthesis and Characterization of Bay Substituted Perylene Diimide Small Molecule for Organic Solar Cell Application

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Recent Trends in Materials Science and Applications

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We report the synthesis of N,N′-Bis(hexyl)-1,7-di(thiophenyl)perylene -3,4:9,10-tetracarboxylic acid diimide (T-PDI-H) based small molecule by Suzuki coupling method for organic photovoltaic (OPV) application. The synthesized small molecule was confirmed by FT-IR and NMR techniques. The T-PDI-H showed broad and strong absorption in the UV-Visible region. From UV-Visible spectra we observed a low optical band gap (E optg ) of 1.96 eV for T-PDI-H. From the cyclic voltammetry, the calculated HOMO, LUMO and electrochemical band gap (E eleg ) for the small molecule was −5.77, −3.44 and 2.33 eV respectively. Thermogravimetric analysis was employed to elucidate the thermal stability of T-PDI-H small molecule, it showed good thermal stability up to 400 °C. The preferred property for the high power conversion efficiency (PCE) OPV device, molecule must possess broad and strong absorption in the UV-Vis region, low band gap , and high thermal and environmental stability. T-PDI-H small molecule might satisfy the above standards with the chance to give maximum power conversion efficiency (PCE).

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This project has been supported by the Ministry of Department of Science and Technology (DST), India, under the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) NO. SB/FT/CS-185/2011. We thank the VIT management for the lab and instrument facility and VIT-SIF lab, SAS, Chemistry Division for NMR and GC-MS Analysis.

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    R. Ganesamoorthy, G. Sathiyan & P. Sakthivel

  2. Electrochemical Materials Science Division, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi, 630006, India

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Ganesamoorthy, R., Sathiyan, G., Thangamuthu, R., Sakthivel, P. (2017). Synthesis and Characterization of Bay Substituted Perylene Diimide Small Molecule for Organic Solar Cell Application. In: Ebenezar, J. (eds) Recent Trends in Materials Science and Applications. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 189. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44890-9_37

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