Nonfused-Core-Small-Molecule-Acceptor-Based Polymer Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells

Xian-Ming Zhu; Su-Nan Bao; Hang Yang; Hong-Yu Fan; Chen-Ling Fan; Xiao-Xiao Li; Ke-Wei Hu; Hao-Yu Cao; Chao-Hua Cui; Yongfang Li

doi:10.1007/s10118-022-2769-2

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Nonfused-Core-Small-Molecule-Acceptor-Based Polymer Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells

RESEARCH ARTICLE | Updated：2022-07-21

- Nonfused-Core-Small-Molecule-Acceptor-Based Polymer Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 40, Issue 8, Pages: 960-967(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Materials, Suzhou Key Laboratory of Novel Semiconductor-Optoelectronics Materials and Devices, College of Chemistry Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
  b.Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- Author bio：
  
  cuichaohua@suda.edu.cn
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-022-2769-2
  CLC：
- Received：19 March 2022，
  
  Revised：2022-4-20，
  
  Accepted：21 April 2022，
  
  Online First：22 June 2022，
  
  Published：01 August 2022
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Zhu, X. M.; Bao, S. N.; Yang, H.; Fan, H. Y.; Fan, C. L.; Li, X. X.; Hu, K. W.; Cao, H. Y.; Cui, C. H.; Li, Y. Nonfused-core-small-molecule-acceptor-based polymer acceptors for all-polymer solar cells. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 960–967

Xian-Ming Zhu, Su-Nan Bao, Hang Yang, et al. Nonfused-Core-Small-Molecule-Acceptor-Based Polymer Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(8): 960-967.
Zhu, X. M.; Bao, S. N.; Yang, H.; Fan, H. Y.; Fan, C. L.; Li, X. X.; Hu, K. W.; Cao, H. Y.; Cui, C. H.; Li, Y. Nonfused-core-small-molecule-acceptor-based polymer acceptors for all-polymer solar cells. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 960–967 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2769-2.

Xian-Ming Zhu, Su-Nan Bao, Hang Yang, et al. Nonfused-Core-Small-Molecule-Acceptor-Based Polymer Acceptors for All-Polymer Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(8): 960-967. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-022-2769-2.

摘要

Three polymerized small molecule acceptors with nonfused-core are designed to simplify the synthetic procedures. Relative to the fused-ring based counterparts

these three polymer acceptors exhibit much higher figure-of-merit value. Encouragingly

a power-conversion efficiency of 8.80% is achieved in the PBTI-Cl-based all-polymer solar cells.

Abstract

Polymerizing the narrow bandgap small-molecule architecture with a conjugated linking unit (or called the polymerized small molecule acceptors (PSMAs)) is a promising strategy to design polymer acceptors for efficient all polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). Currently

the fused-ring-based small molecule acceptors (SMAs) are preferred monomers to design efficient PSMAs

leaving the challenge of reducing the materials cost. In this work

we firstly employ nonfused-core SMA with simple synthetic procedures to design PSMAs (namely PBTI-H

PBTI-F and PBTI-Cl) to address this issue. Relative to the fused-ring based counterparts

these three PSMAs exhibit much higher figure-of-merit value. Additionally

a power-conversion efficiency of 8.80% is achieved in the PBTI-Cl-based all-PSC. The results offer an attractive approach to design low-cost PSMAs for efficient all-PSCs.

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