Issue 39, 2021

High-performance as-cast non-fullerene polymer solar cells from benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]difuran polymer via a rational copolymer design

Abstract

In this study, we synthesized a novel benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]difuran (BDF) copolymer (F13-R) by introducing ester-substituted thiophene into the PDiFPBDF-TBz (F13) backbone aiming to finely tune the molecular stacking and aggregation for non-fullerene as-cast polymer solar cell (PSC) applications. Compared with F13, F13-R displayed a slight blue-shifted absorption, a deeper highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level of −5.60 eV, and improved intermolecular stacking. In PSCs, it is found that the as-cast F13-R : IT-4F device, which does not need any solvent additive and thermal/solvent annealing, could achieve a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 12.2% with an open-circuit voltage (Voc) of 0.904 V, a short-circuit current density (Jsc) of 17.61 mA cm−2 and a fill factor (FF) of 76.60%. The as-cast F13-R : IT-4F device is the first PSC fabricated from low-cost BDF polymers, and its performance is among the best performances in as-cast PSCs. These results demonstrate that fine-tuning the BDF polymer structure via a copolymer design could be an efficient strategy to develop low-cost and high-performance as-cast PSCs.

Graphical abstract: High-performance as-cast non-fullerene polymer solar cells from benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]difuran polymer via a rational copolymer design

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 ago 2021
Accepted
08 set 2021
First published
09 set 2021

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021,9, 13617-13624

High-performance as-cast non-fullerene polymer solar cells from benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]difuran polymer via a rational copolymer design

E. He, Z. Zheng, Y. Lu, F. Guo, S. Gao, G. T. Mola, L. Zhao and Y. Zhang, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2021, 9, 13617 DOI: 10.1039/D1TC03966K

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