High-performance all-polymer solar cells enabled by a novel low bandgap non-fully conjugated polymer acceptorShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Science in China Series B: Chemistry, ISSN 1674-7291, E-ISSN 1869-1870, Vol. 64, p. 1380-1388Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Anon-fully conjugated polymer as a new class of acceptor materials has shown some advantages over its small molecular counterpart when used in photoactive layers for all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs), despite a low power conversion efficiency (PCE) caused by its narrow absorption spectra. Herein, a novel non-fully conjugated polymer acceptor PFY-2TS with a low bandgap of similar to 1.40 eV was developed, via polymerizing a large pi-fused small molecule acceptor (SMA) building block (namely YBO) with a non-conjugated thioalkyl linkage. Compared with its precursor YBO, PFY-2TS retains a similar low bandgap but a higher LUMO level. Moreover, compared with the structural analog of YBO-based fully conjugated polymer acceptor PFY-DTC, PFY-2TS shows similar absorption spectrum and electron mobility, but significantly different molecular crystallinity and aggregation properties, which results in optimal blend morphology with a polymer donor PBDB-T and better device physical processes in all-PSCs. As a result, PFY-2TS-based all-PSCs achieved a PCE of 12.31% with a small energy loss of 0.56 eV enabled by the reduced non-radiative energy loss (0.24 eV), which is better than that of 11.08% for the PFY-DTC-based ones. Our work clearly demonstrated that non-fully conjugated polymers as a new class of acceptor materials are very promising for the development of high-performance all-PSCs.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Nature, 2021. Vol. 64, p. 1380-1388
Keywords [en]
all-polymer solar cells, morphology, non-fully conjugated polymer acceptors, energy loss, power conversion efficiency
National Category
Chemical Sciences Physical Sciences
Research subject
Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-85544DOI: 10.1007/s11426-021-1020-7ISI: 000667608000002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85112386404OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-85544DiVA, id: diva2:1583089
2021-08-052021-08-052021-11-11Bibliographically approved