Recent Advances of Furan and Its Derivatives Based Semiconductor Materials for Organic Photovoltaics
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- 16 August 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Small Methods
- Vol. 5 (9) , 2100493
Abstract
The state‐of‐the‐art bulk‐heterojunction (BHJ)‐type organic solar cells (OSCs) have exhibited power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of exceeding 18%. Thereinto, thiophene and its fused‐ring derivatives play significant roles in facilitating the development of OSCs due to their excellent semiconducting natures. Furan as thiophene analogue, is a ubiquitous motif in naturally occurring organic compounds. Driven by the advantages of furan, such as less steric hindrance, good solubility, excellent stacking, strong rigidity and fluorescence, biomass derived fractions, more and more research groups focus on the furan‐based materials for using in OSCs in the past decade. To systematically understand the developments of furan‐based photovoltaic materials, the relationships between the molecular structures, optoelectronic properties, and photovoltaic performances for the furan‐based semiconductor materials including single furan, benzofuran, benzodifuran (BDF) (containing thienobenzofuran (TBF)), naphthodifurans (NDF), and polycyclic furan are summarized. Finally, the empirical regularities and perspectives of the development of this kind of new organic semiconductor materials are extracted.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (21774003)
- Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality (2212032)
- Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (Z181100004418012)
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