Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance of Asymmetrical Benzo Dithiophene Homopolymer Donor Materials in Nonfullerene Acceptor-Based Organic Photovoltaics
摘要:
Although much promising synthetic progress in conjugated polymer-based organic solar cells (OSCs) has resulted in significant improvement in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of from over 15 to >19.0% in the last five years, the sophisticated and complex reactions from at least two families’ monomers with remarkably different electron push–pull effects could still pose an unavoidable material burden for the commercialization of OSCs in the coming future. Therefore, the method of preparing a homopolymer from a sole monomer would significantly reduce the synthetic steps and costs in order to pave the way for the large-scale production of OSC materials. Therefore, alkylthio-thiophenyl-substituted benzo[1,2-b;4,5-b′]dithiophene (BDTTS) as the sole and key structural moiety with dihalogen and distannyl functional groups was designed and synthesized, respectively, in this study, for facile monomer syntheses and polymerizations to achieve three wide-bandgap homopolymer donors of BDTTS-alt-BDTT-Cl (P13), BDTTS-alt-BDTT (P15), and BDTTS (P14), respectively. The structural symmetry dependency on their physical, electrochemical, and optical properties, thin-film morphologies, and photovoltaic (PV) performance was investigated in detail. As a result, OSCs based on the asymmetric polymer P15, paired with BTP-eC9 as the electron acceptor, presented the best PV performance, with a PCE of 11.5%, a fill factor (FF) of 65.87%, and a short-circuit current (JSC) of 22.04 mA·cm−2, respectively. This PCE value is among the highest ones reported for BDT-type homopolymer donor-based OPVs, providing us with knowledge for obtaining promising PV performance from devices made of P15-like materials.
(E)-5-(2-(5-(Alkylthio)thiophen-2-yl)vinyl)thiophene-2-yl functional groups were introduced onto 4- and 8-positions of BDT units, and this building block was used to construct a new derivative polymer of PTB7, named as PBT-TVT. Benefiting from the prolonged conjugation of the conjugated side groups on BDT units, the optical absorption property of PBT-TVT can be improved greatly compared to that of PTB7, so an inspiring result of 7.67% was obtained by using PBT-TVT as the donor and PC61BM as the acceptor in polymer solar cells (PSCs), which is much higher than that of the PTB7:PC61BM-based device and also one of the highest results for PSCs with PC61BM. In electrochemical cyclic voltammetry (CV) measurements, PBT-TVT showed a deeper HOMO level than PTB7 so the device based on the former exhibits higher open circuit voltage than the latter. Moreover, in comparison with PTB7, the new polymer PBT-TVT exhibited stronger interchain pi-pi interaction and thus higher hole mobility. Overall, the results in this work indicated that PBT-TVT is a promising donor polymer, and the strategy used in this work will be beneficial for molecular design of polymer photovoltaic materials for large-scale production of PSCs.
Enhanced open-circuit voltage in methoxyl substituted benzodithiophene-based polymer solar cells
作者:Xiaonan Xue、Tao Liu、Xiangyi Meng、Xiaobo Sun、Lijun Huo、Wei Ma、Yanming Sun
DOI:10.1007/s11426-016-0349-7
日期:2017.2
The open-circuitvoltage (V oc) is one of the important parameters that influence the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of polymer solarcells. Its value is mainly determined by the energylevel offset between the highest occupied molecularorbital (HOMO) of the donor and the lowest unoccupied molecularorbital (LUMO) of the acceptor. Therefore, decreasing the HOMO value of the polymer could lead to
Sulfonyl: a new application of electron-withdrawing substituent in highly efficient photovoltaic polymer
作者:Ye Huang、Lijun Huo、Shaoqing Zhang、Xia Guo、Charles C. Han、Yongfang Li、Jianhui Hou
DOI:10.1039/c1cc12575c
日期:——
A strong electron-withdrawing group, sulfonyl, was firstly introduced to a semiconducting polymer, PBDTTT-S. The PCE of the PBDTTT-S device reached 6.22% with a high open-circuit voltage of 0.76 V. The sulfonyl group is thus a promising candidate as a strong electron-withdrawing group applied to high-efficiency PSCs.
Synergistic effect of side-chain and backbone engineering in thieno[2,3-<i>f</i>]benzofuran-based conjugated polymers for high performance non-fullerene organic solar cells
作者:Keke Dou、Xunchang Wang、Zurong Du、Huanxiang Jiang、Feng Li、Mingliang Sun、Renqiang Yang
DOI:10.1039/c8ta07544a
日期:——
A series of copolymers containing thieno[2,3-f]benzofuran unit with different alkyl side chains are synthesized. The best photovoltaic performance with power conversion efficiency over 11% have been realized.