Double-Cable Conjugated Polymers with Fullerene Pendant for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells

Bai-Qiao Liu; Yun-Hua Xu; Feng Liu; Cheng-Cheng Xie; Shi-Jie Liang; Qiao-Mei Chen; Wei-Wei Li

doi:10.1007/s10118-022-2732-2

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Double-Cable Conjugated Polymers with Fullerene Pendant for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells

RESEARCH ARTICLE | Updated：2022-07-21

- Double-Cable Conjugated Polymers with Fullerene Pendant for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 40, Issue 8, Pages: 898-904(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
  b.Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering & State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
  c.College of Basic Medicine, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
- Author bio：
  
  yhxu@bjtu.edu.cn (Y.H.X.)
  chenqm@mail.buct.edu.cn (Q.M.C.)
  liweiwei@iccas.ac.cn (W.W.L.)
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- DOI：10.1007/s10118-022-2732-2
  CLC： M
- Received：13 January 2022，
  
  Revised：2022-2-21，
  
  Accepted：07 March 2022，
  
  Online First：27 May 2022，
  
  Published：01 August 2022
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Liu, B. Q.; Xu, Y. H.; Liu, F.; Xie, C. C.; Liang, S. J.; Chen, Q. M.; Li, W. W. Double-cable conjugated polymers with fullerene pendant for single-component organic solar cells. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 898–904

Bai-Qiao Liu, Yun-Hua Xu, Feng Liu, et al. Double-Cable Conjugated Polymers with Fullerene Pendant for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(8): 898-904.
Liu, B. Q.; Xu, Y. H.; Liu, F.; Xie, C. C.; Liang, S. J.; Chen, Q. M.; Li, W. W. Double-cable conjugated polymers with fullerene pendant for single-component organic solar cells. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 898–904 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2732-2.

Bai-Qiao Liu, Yun-Hua Xu, Feng Liu, et al. Double-Cable Conjugated Polymers with Fullerene Pendant for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(8): 898-904. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2732-2.

摘要

Double-cable conjugated polymers with fullerene pendant were synthesized via “functionalization-polymerization” method. The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) based on these polymers increased from 0.71% to 1.71% with the enhanced fullerene contents.

Abstract

In this work

the “functionalization-polymerization” (FP) method has been used to construct fullerene-contained double-cable conjugated polymers with “donor-acceptor” backbones. It was realized

via

synthesizing a fullerene-contained monomer and performing Stille polymerization. With this method

a series of double-cable conjugated polymers with different fullerene contents were developed and applied into single-component organic solar cells. The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) based on these polymers increased from 0.71% to 1.71% with the enhanced fullerene contents. The relatively low PCEs might be originated from the poor microstructure in these polymers. These new conjugated polymers with molecular heterojunction would show potential application in organic electronic devices.

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