Akkuratov, A. V.; Susarova, D. K.; Moskvin, Y. L.; Anokhin, D. V.; Chernyak, A. V.; Prudnov, F. A.; Novikov, D. V.; Babenko, S. D.; Troshin, P. A.
A strong influence of the positions of solubilizing alkyl side chains on optoelectronic and photovoltaic properties of TTBTBTT-based conjugated polymers
We report the synthesis and comparative study of five conjugated polymers P1–P5 with different arrangements of two solubilizing 2-ethylhexyl side chains in their repeating units. It has been shown that positioning of the alkyl substituents affects strongly frontier energy levels of the polymers and results in variation of their optical…
Clustering-Triggered Emission and Persistent Room Temperature Phosphorescence of Sodium Alginate
Dou, Xueyu; Zhou, Qing; Chen, Xiaohong; Tan, Yeqiang; He, Xin; Lu, Ping; Sui, Kunyan; Tang, Ben Zhong; Zhang, Yongming; Yuan, Wang Zhang
Nonconventional biomacromolecular luminogens have attracted extensive interest due to their fundamental importance and potential applications in diverse areas. To explore novel luminogens and, moreover, to gain deeper insights into their emission mechanism, we study the emission behaviors of sodium alginate (SA), a natural anionic polysaccharide composed of mannuronic (M) and…
Enhanced intramolecular charge transfer of unfused electron acceptors for efficient organic solar cells
Qin, Ran; Yang, Weitao; Li, Shuixing; Lau, Tsz-Ki; Yu, Zhipeng; Liu, Zhang; Shi, Minmin; Lu, Xinhui; Li, Chang-Zhi; Chen, Hongzheng
It is promising, yet challenging, to employ molecules of slight synthetic complexity to construct efficient and low-cost organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, two unfused acceptors, DF-TCIC and HF-TCIC, were developed for OSC applications, in which the 3,4-difluorothiophene core connected through a cyclopentadithiophene (CPDT) bridge to 1,1-dicyanomethylene-3-indanone derivatives (IC for DF-TCIC…
Evolution of morphology and open-circuit voltage in alloy-energy transfer coexisting ternary organic solar cells
Xia, Benzheng; Yuan, Liu; Zhang, Jianqi; Wang, Zaiyu; Fang, Jin; Zhao, Yifan; Deng, Dan; Ma, Wei; Lu, Kun; Wei, Zhixiang
The oligomer-type small molecule PDT2FBT-ID is applied in a polymer/small molecule/fullerene ternary system. The PTB7-Th/PDT2FBT-ID/PC71BM ternary active layer shows complementary absorption spectra, enhanced face-on orientation and energy transfer properties. Compared to the binary system, the FF of the ternary system is improved from 66.72% to 76.14% and the Jsc is…
Overcoming efficiency and stability limits in water-processing nanoparticular organic photovoltaics by minimizing microstructure defects
Xie, Chen; Heumüller, Thomas; Gruber, Wolfgang; Tang, Xiaofeng; Classen, Andrej; Schuldes, Isabel; Bidwell, Matthew; Späth, Andreas; Fink, Rainer H.; Unruh, Tobias; McCulloch, Iain; Li, Ning; Brabec, Christoph J.
Water-based semiconducting polymer nanoparticles are eco-friendly and non-toxic but their performance suffers from the surfactants. Here Xie et al. design an approach to minimize the amount of residual surfactant in these nanoparticles and make high-efficiency and stability solar…
The effect of side-chain substitution on the aggregation and photovoltaic performance of diketopyrrolopyrrole-alt-dicarboxylic ester bithiophene polymers
Heuvel, Ruurd; Colberts, Fallon J. M.; Li, Junyu; Wienk, Martijn M.; Janssen, René A. J.
Using a dicarboxylic ester bithiophene (DCBT) co-monomer, electron-withdrawing ester groups are introduced on the two central thiophene rings of an alternating donor–acceptor polymer (PDPP4T) consisting of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) and quaterthiophene (4T) to increase the oxidation potential and reduce the photon energy loss in solar cells. To counteract the increased solubility…
An Isoindigo-Based “Double-Cable” Conjugated Polymer for Single-Component Polymer Solar Cells
Yu, Changshi; Xu, Yunhua; Li, Cheng; Feng, Guitao; Yang, Fan; Li, Junyu; Li, Weiwei
Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2018, vol 36, 6, pp. 515–518DOI:Back to the overview
The Impact of Device Polarity on the Performance of Polymer–Fullerene Solar Cells
Li, Mengmeng; Li, Junyu; Di Carlo Rasi, Dario; Colberts, Fallon JM; Wang, Junke; Heintges, Gaël HL; Lin, Baojun; Li, Weiwei; Ma, Wei; Wienk, Martijn M.
Advanced Energy Materials, 2018, pp. 1800550DOI:Back to the overview
Effects of fluorination and thermal annealing on charge recombination processes in polymer bulk-heterojunction solar cells
Más-Montoya, Miriam; Li, Junyu; Wienk, Martijn M.; Meskers, Stefan CJ; Janssen, René AJ
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018, vol 6, 40, pp. 19520–19531DOI:Back to the overview
Ordered Mesoporous to Macroporous Oxides with Tunable Isomorphic Architectures: Solution Criteria for Persistent Micelle Templates
Lokupitiya, Hasala N.; Jones, Alexis; Reid, Barry; Guldin, Stefan; Stefik, Morgan
Porous and nanoscale architectures of inorganic materials have become crucial for a range of energy and catalysis applications, where the ability to control the morphology largely determines the transport characteristics and device performance. Despite the availability of a range of block copolymer self-assembly methods, the conditions for tuning the key…