In this Letter, two zinc porphyrin small molecules D1 and A1 with different functional groups have been employed as the donor and acceptor, respectively, for the construction of all-porphyrin photovoltaics (APPs). The strong electron-donating phenylamino moiety ensures the D1 small molecule with a high-lying highest occupied molecular orbital energy level aligns a cascade energy level with the A1 small molecule, accomplishing the driving force for exciton dissociation and prompting intermolecular π−π stacking to ameliorate the intermolecular charge transport. Meanwhile, good complementary absorptions between D1 donor and A1 acceptor greatly contribute to harvesting more solar flux. For the optimized devices, 1:0.5 D1:A1 device delivered a relatively high power conversion efficiency of 7.21% with an open-circuit voltage of 0.76 V, a short-circuit current density of 14.43 mA cm −2 , a fill factor of 65.7%, and a small energy loss of 0.61 eV.
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