Toward the Rational Design of Organic Solar Photovoltaics: Application of Molecular Structure Methods to Donor Polymers
Sandile Mamba, David S. Perry, Mesfin Tsige, Giuseppe Pellicane
Abstract
, and -Cl give a steric hindrance greater than that of PTB7, which is set as reference. Our calculations show a possible approach to the rational design of donor materials when substituents are inserted systematically in a generic oligomer.
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