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- Title
High performance polymerized small molecule acceptor by synergistic optimization on π-bridge linker and side chain.
- Authors
Sun, Guangpei; Jiang, Xin; Li, Xiaojun; Meng, Lei; Zhang, Jinyuan; Qin, Shucheng; Kong, Xiaolei; Li, Jing; Xin, Jingming; Ma, Wei; Li, Yongfang
- Abstract
The polymerized small-molecule acceptors have attracted great attention for application as polymer acceptor in all-polymer solar cells recently. The modification of small molecule acceptor building block and the π-bridge linker is an effective strategy to improve the photovoltaic performance of the polymer acceptors. In this work, we synthesized a new polymer acceptor PG-IT2F which is a modification of the representative polymer acceptor PY-IT by replacing its upper linear alkyl side chains on the small molecule building block with branched alkyl chains and attaching difluorene substituents on its thiophene π-bridge linker. Through this synergistic optimization, PG-IT2F possesses more suitable phase separation, increased charge transportation, better exciton dissociation, lower bimolecular recombination, and longer charge transfer state lifetime than PY-IT in their polymer solar cells with PM6 as polymer donor. Therefore, the devices based on PM6:PG-IT2F demonstrated a high power conversion efficiency of 17.24%, which is one of the highest efficiency reported for the binary all polymer solar cells to date. This work indicates that the synergistic regulation of small molecule acceptor building block and π-bridge linker plays a key role in designing and developing highly efficient polymer acceptors. The modification of small molecule acceptor building block and π−bridge linker is effective to improve photovoltaic performance. Here, the authors replace linear with branched alkyl chains and introduce difluorene-substituted linker to realise all-polymer solar cells with efficiency of 17.24%.
- Subjects
SMALL molecules; SOLAR cell efficiency; THIOPHENES; POLYMERS; CONJUGATED polymers; SOLAR cells; CHARGE transfer; PHASE separation
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-32964-z