<p>Developing cost-effective
and rational hole transporting materials is critical for fabricating high-performance
perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and to promote their commercial endeavor. We have
designed and developed pyridine (core) bridging diphenylamine-substituted
carbazole (arm) small molecules, named as <b>2,6PyDANCBZ
</b>and <b>3,5PyDANCBZ</b>. The linking
topology of core and arm on their photophysical, thermal, semiconducting and
photovoltaic properties were probed systematically. We found that the <b>2,6PyDANCBZ </b>shows higher mobility and
conductivity along with uniform film-forming ability as compared to <b>3,5PyDANCBZ</b>. The PSCs fabricated with <b>2,6PyDANCBZ </b>supersede the performance delivered
by Spiro-OMeTAD, and importantly also gave improved long-term stability. Our
findings put forward small molecules based on core-arm linking topology for
cost-effective hole selective layers designing.</p>