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a.The Institute for Advanced Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
b.Enikolopov Institute of Synthetic Polymeric Materials of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117393, Russia
sun.rui@whu.edu.cn (R.S.)
min.jie@whu.edu.cn (J.M.)
Received:06 March 2025,
Revised:24 April 2025,
Accepted:27 April 2025,
Published Online:10 July 2025,
Published:2025-05
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Shi, H. Y.; Xing, L.; Chen, M. X.; Chen, Z. Y.; Deng, M. W.; Xu, L. Y.; Wu, X. H.; Yang, X. R.; Shao, Y. M.; Papkovskaya, E. D.; Luponosov, Y.; Sun, R.; Min, J. Pendant y-series acceptors with well-controlled morphology enabled high performance and stability all-polymer solar cells. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-025-3367-x
Hao-Yong Shi, Lu Xing, Ming-Xia Chen, et al. Pendant Y-series Acceptors with Well-controlled Morphology Enabled High Performance and Stability All-polymer Solar Cells[J/OL]. Chinese journal of polymer science, 2025, 431-11.
Shi, H. Y.; Xing, L.; Chen, M. X.; Chen, Z. Y.; Deng, M. W.; Xu, L. Y.; Wu, X. H.; Yang, X. R.; Shao, Y. M.; Papkovskaya, E. D.; Luponosov, Y.; Sun, R.; Min, J. Pendant y-series acceptors with well-controlled morphology enabled high performance and stability all-polymer solar cells. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-025-3367-x DOI:
Hao-Yong Shi, Lu Xing, Ming-Xia Chen, et al. Pendant Y-series Acceptors with Well-controlled Morphology Enabled High Performance and Stability All-polymer Solar Cells[J/OL]. Chinese journal of polymer science, 2025, 431-11. DOI: 10.1007/s10118-025-3367-x.
Polymer acceptor configuration and aggregation behavior are
critical in determining the photovoltaic performance of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). Effectively manipulating polymer self-aggregation through structural design to optimize the blend morphology remains challenging. Herein
we present a simple yet effective design strategy to modulate the aggregation behavior of the Y-series-based polymer acceptor PY-V-
γ
by introducing a pendant-fluorinated Y-series acceptor (Y2F-ET) into the main-conjugated backbone. Two random copolymer acceptors (PY-EY-5 and PY-EY-20) were synthesized with varying molar fractions of Y2F-ET pendant monomers. Our findings revealed that both the solution-phase and solid-state aggregation behaviors were progressively suppressed as the Y2F-ET content increased. Compared to the highly self-aggregating PY-V-
γ
-based all-PSCs
the more amorphous PY-EY-5 enabled devices to achieve an increased device efficiency from 17.31% to 18.45%
which is attributed to the slightly smaller polymer phase-separation domain sizes and reduced molecular aggregation in the PM6:PY-EY-5 blend. Moreover
the finely tuned blend morphology exhibited superior thermal stability
underscoring the significant advantages of the Y-series pendant random copolymerization approach.
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