Issue 11, 2013
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Energy & Environmental Science

Non-halogenated solvents for environmentally friendly processing of high-performance bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells†

Chu-Chen Chueh,ab   Kai Yao,ac   Hin-Lap Yip,‡a   Chih-Yu Chang,a   Yun-Xiang Xu,a   Kung-Shih Chen,a   Chang-Zhi Li,a   Peng Liu,d   Fei Huang,d   Yiwang Chen,c   Wen-Chang Chenb  and  Alex K.-Y. Jen*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-2120, USA
E-mail: ajen@u.washington.edu

b Department of Chemical Engineering, and Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan

c Institute of Polymers/Department of Chemistry, Nanchang University, 999 Xuefu Avenue, Nanchang 330031, China

d State Key Laboratory of Luminescence Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China

Abstract

High-performance bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) polymer solar cells (PSCs) processed from non-halogenated solvents with power conversion efficiency values over 7% are demonstrated for the first time. The effects of these solvents on the morphology, charge mobility, and PSC device performance have been systematically studied. The general applicability of these non-halogenated solvents to diverse polymer/fullerene systems has also been demonstrated.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3EE41915K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Jun 2013
Accepted
14 Aug 2013
First published
20 Aug 2013

Energy Environ. Sci., 2013,6, 3241-3248

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Non-halogenated solvents for environmentally friendly processing of high-performance bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells

C. Chueh, K. Yao, H. Yip, C. Chang, Y. Xu, K. Chen, C. Li, P. Liu, F. Huang, Y. Chen, W. Chen and A. K.-Y. Jen, Energy Environ. Sci., 2013, 6, 3241 DOI: 10.1039/C3EE41915K

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