A monothiophene unit incorporating both fluoro and ester substitution enabling high-performance donor polymers for non-fullerene solar cells with 16.4% efficiency

Both fluorine and ester substituted monothiophene yielded a novel thiophene derivative FE-T. The resulting polymer donor S1 enabled single-junction non-fullerene solar cell with over 16% efficiency.

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