Benzobisthiazole Polymer with Resonance-assisted Hydrogen Bonds for High-performance Transistor and Solar Cell Applications

Bing-Yong Liu; Cong Xie; Cong-Wu Ge; Meng-Meng Cui; Wei Yang; Zai-Fei Ma; Xi-Ke Gao; Yin-Hua Zhou; Qing Zhang

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Benzobisthiazole Polymer with Resonance-assisted Hydrogen Bonds for High-performance Transistor and Solar Cell Applications

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- Benzobisthiazole Polymer with Resonance-assisted Hydrogen Bonds for High-performance Transistor and Solar Cell Applications
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 40, Issue 2, Pages: 147-156(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Shanghai Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Thermal Aging, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  b.Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  c.Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Self-Assembly Chemistry for Organic Functional Molecules, Center for Excellence in Molecular Synthesis, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China
  d.State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Center for Advanced Low-dimension Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
- Author bio：
  
  mazaifei@dhu.edu.cn (Z.F.M.)
  gaoxk@sioc.ac.cn (X.K.G.)
  yh_zhou@hust.edu.cn (Y.H.Z.)
  qz14@sjtu.edcn (Q.Z.)
- Funds：
  
  This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21674060) and by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2019YFA0706100).
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-022-2662-z
  CLC：
- Received：02 September 2021，
  
  Revised：2021-10-19，
  
  Accepted：05 November 2021，
  
  Online First：01 January 2022，
  
  Published：01 February 2022
- Accepted：
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Liu, B. Y.; Xie, C.; Ge, C. W.; Cui, M. M.; Yang, W.; Ma, Z. F.; Gao, X. K.; Zhou, Y. H.; Zhang, Q. Benzobisthiazole polymer with resonance-assisted hydrogen bonds for high-performance transistor and solar cell applications. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 147–156

Bing-Yong Liu, Cong Xie, Cong-Wu Ge, et al. Benzobisthiazole Polymer with Resonance-assisted Hydrogen Bonds for High-performance Transistor and Solar Cell Applications[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(2): 147-156.
Liu, B. Y.; Xie, C.; Ge, C. W.; Cui, M. M.; Yang, W.; Ma, Z. F.; Gao, X. K.; Zhou, Y. H.; Zhang, Q. Benzobisthiazole polymer with resonance-assisted hydrogen bonds for high-performance transistor and solar cell applications. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 147–156 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2662-z.

Bing-Yong Liu, Cong Xie, Cong-Wu Ge, et al. Benzobisthiazole Polymer with Resonance-assisted Hydrogen Bonds for High-performance Transistor and Solar Cell Applications[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(2): 147-156. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2662-z.

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Benzobisthiazole polymer with resonance-assisted hydrogen bonds (RAHBs) has been synthesized for both organic field-effect transistor and polymer solar cell applications. The properties of the hydrogen bonded polymer are compared with the reference polymer without RAHBs. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses of the building block reveal that the RAHB interactions are formed between the carbamate hydrogen and imine nitrogen of the thiazoles. The hydrogen donor and acceptor are connected by

-conjugated molecular framework and the hydrogen-bridged quasi aromatic rings lock the conformation of the building block. The building block adopted a layered sandwich packing in crystal instead of slipped herringbone stacking which was often found in the crystal of benzobisthiazole derivatives. The polymer

PCBTZ-TT

with RAHBs showed deeper HOMO/LUMO energy level (about 0.2 eV) than reference polymer. The

PCBTZ-TT

demonstrated the hole mobility of 0.96 cm

·V

−1

·s

−1

in field-effect transistor devices and achieved power conversion efficiency of 13.6% in solar cell devices with

as acceptor without any additive.

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