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ArticleJournal of fluorescence2025

Improving Small-Molecules Based OSCs Performance Through Molecular Optimization: A Computational DFT Analysis.

Sania Ismaeel, Shamsa Bibi, Saba Jamil, Muhammad Yaseen

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Article in Journal of fluorescence, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Sania IsmaeelDepartment of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.
Shamsa BibiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan. shamsa.shafiq@uaf.edu.pk.
Saba JamilDepartment of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.
Muhammad YaseenDepartment of Physics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.

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Higher Education Commision, Pakistan SRGP # 21-1083
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Abstract

Organic solar cells (OSCs) have gained significant attention due to their potential for low-cost production and flexible applications. This study focuses on the computational design and optimization of donor molecules to enhance OSC efficiency. We have strategically designed benzodithiophene (BDT) and thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (TT) derivatives (M1 to M7) by varying the number of the central core and modifying the side chains with different substituents, allowing for fine-tuning of their electronic properties and enhancing their photovoltaic performance. This substitution promotes more ordered π-π stacking improving hole transport properties. Introducing a twisted backbone structure in the designed molecules M1-M7, with alteration of different side chains and substitutions, helps suppress molecular aggregation. The use of a selenophenyl (M6) side chain enhances intermolecular interactions compared to thiophenyl side chains (M1-M5). Thiophenyl substituted molecule exhibited higher HOMO energy levels. This higher energy level provides a larger HOMO offset, facilitating efficient exciton dissociation without increasing energy losses, which is favorable for achieving high V

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DFTElectron withdrawing groupsOptoelectronic propertiesOSCsSelenophenyl

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