With the aim of upgrading the power conversion efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs), five novel non-fullerene, A2−D−A1−D−A2-type small molecules were designed that are derivatives of a recently synthesized molecule, DF-PCIC, reported for its efficient properties in all-small-molecule OSCs (ASM-OSCs). Optoelectronic properties of the designed molecules were theoretically computed with a selected MPW1PW91 functional accompanied by the 6-31G(d,p) basis set of density functional theory (DFT), and excited-state calculations were performed through the time-dependent self-consistent field.
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