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a.College of Textiles & Clothing, State Key Laboratory of Bio-fibers and Eco-textiles, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China
b.Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Materials, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
c.College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
liuyh@qdu.edu.cn (Y.L)
zsbo@bnu.edu.cn (Z.B)
Received:16 April 2022,
Revised:2022-5-5,
Accepted:07 May 2022,
Online First:22 June 2022,
Published:01 August 2022
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Wang, H.; Lu, H.; Chen, Y. N.; Zhang, A.; Liu, Y.; Zhang, C.; Liu, Y.; Xu, X.; Bo, Z. Effect of polymer chain regularity on the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 996–1002
Hang Wang, Hao Lu, Ya-Nan Chen, et al. Effect of Polymer Chain Regularity on the Photovoltaic Performance of Organic Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(8): 996-1002.
Wang, H.; Lu, H.; Chen, Y. N.; Zhang, A.; Liu, Y.; Zhang, C.; Liu, Y.; Xu, X.; Bo, Z. Effect of polymer chain regularity on the photovoltaic performance of organic solar cells. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2022, 40, 996–1002 DOI: 10.1007/s10118-022-2796-z.
Hang Wang, Hao Lu, Ya-Nan Chen, et al. Effect of Polymer Chain Regularity on the Photovoltaic Performance of Organic Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2022, 40(8): 996-1002. DOI: 10.1007/s10118-022-2796-z.
The BDT based regio-regular polymer
reg-PTF
and the corresponding random polymer
ran-PTF
are developed as donor materials. Acceptors with different energy level are severally match with the two polymers can give the significant different PCE due to the different energy level offset between the donor and acceptor materials.
In this work
regio-regular and random polymers (
reg-PTF
and
ran-PTF
) comprising benzodithiophene and 3-fluorothiophene units are developed to investigate the influence of polymer chain regularity on the photovoltaic performance. Interestingly
reg-PTF
exhibits higher HOMO energy level (~0.2 eV) than that of
ran-PTF
due to the more ordered molecular structure and higher crystallization. As the result
the HOMO energy level offset between donor and acceptor can be well controlled by selecting different acceptors. Using BTP-ec9-4F with a much deep HOMO energy level as acceptor
reg-PTF
-based devices display an inferior PCE of 7.66% compared with
ran-PTF
based ones (11.78%) due to the too large HOMO energy levels offset. When blending with Y18-1F
the PCE of
reg-PTF
-based devices is increased to 13.23% due to the appropriate energy level. In comparison
the
ran-PTF
-based devices nearly do not work because of the negative HOMO energy levels offset. This work indicates that both the polymer chain regularity and the energy level offset between the donor and acceptor material are important to the performance of organic solar cells.
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