MODULAR SUPRAMOLECULAR ACTIVE LAYER AND ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES
申请人:UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
公开号:US20140345682A1
公开(公告)日:2014-11-27
A photoactive layer for an organic photovoltaic device has a supramolecular assembly of donors or acceptors formed from a plurality of units that are mixed with electron acceptors or electron donors, respectively, to form an ordered or semi-ordered bulk heterojunction structure. Each unit is formed from a plurality of sub-units that are combined and ordered by hydrogen bonding or other non-covalent interactions to form units that by π-stacking and, optionally, other forces are organized into the supramolecular assembly. Each sub-unit includes at least one electron donor or acceptor moiety, at least one non-covalent interacting moiety, and a linking moiety between the non-covalent interacting moiety and the electron donor or electron acceptor moiety of the sub-unit. The organized supramolecular assembly connects donors or acceptors through the thickness of the photoactive layer, and allows parallel continuous electron acceptor or electron donor phases through the thickness of the active layer.
[EN] MODULAR SUPRAMOLECULAR ACTIVE LAYER AND ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES<br/>[FR] COUCHE ACTIVE SUPRAMOLÉCULAIRE MODULAIRE ET DISPOSITIFS PHOTOVOLTAÏQUES ORGANIQUES
申请人:UNIV FLORIDA
公开号:WO2013119783A1
公开(公告)日:2013-08-15
A photoactive layer for an organic photovoltaic device has a supramolecular assembly of donors or acceptors formed from a plurality of units that are mixed with electron acceptors or electron donors, respectively, to form an ordered or semi-ordered bulk heterojunction structure. Each unit is formed from a plurality of sub-units that are combined and ordered by hydrogen bonding or other non-covalent interactions to form units that by π-stacking and, optionally, other forces are organized into the supramolecular assembly. Each sub-unit includes at least one electron donor or acceptor moiety, at least one non-covalent interacting moiety, and a linking moiety between the non-covalent interacting moiety and the electron donor or electron acceptor moiety of the sub-unit. The organized supramolecular assembly connects donors or acceptors through the thickness of the photoactive layer, and allows parallel continuous electron acceptor or electron donor phases through the thickness of the active layer.
Consequences of hydrogen bonding on molecular organization and charge transport in molecular organic photovoltaic materials
作者:Benjamin M. Schulze、Nathan T. Shewmon、Jing Zhang、Davita L. Watkins、John P. Mudrick、Weiran Cao、Raghida Bou Zerdan、Anthony J. Quartararo、Ion Ghiviriga、Jiangeng Xue、Ronald K. Castellano
DOI:10.1039/c3ta13529b
日期:——
Reported is a systematic molecular structure–property relationship study to evaluate the consequences of dedicated H-bonding interactions between molecular electron donors on molecular assembly, absorption, charge collection, and performance in small-molecule bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices. Three families of branched quaterthiophene donor chromophores have been synthesized with members that share nearly identical electronic and optical properties in the molecularly dispersed state but are either capable or incapable of self-association by hydrogen bonding (H-bonding). Phthalhydrazide-functionalized quaterthiophenes are H-bond “active” and show signatures of H-bond promoted assembly in solution (by 1H NMR) and in both neat and blended (with C60) films (by IR). Compared to control compounds with H-bonding “turned off”, the H-bonded derivatives show red-shifted thin film absorption (neat and as blends with C60), different colors as bulk solids, and increased decomposition and melt temperatures. Photovoltaic devices made from blends of H-bonded donor molecules with C60 as the electron acceptor show improved charge collection length and external quantum efficiency resulting in a more than two-fold enhancement in power conversion efficiency relative to non-H-bonding controls, from 0.49% to 1.04%. We anticipate this approach could be generalized to include other donor chromophores with lower optical gap to harvest more longer-wavelength photons and achieve higher power conversion efficiencies.