A Non-Conjugated Polymer Acceptor for Efficient and Thermally Stable All-Polymer Solar Cells

Qunping Fan; Wenyan Su; Shanshan Chen; Tao Liu; Wenliu Zhuang; Ruijie Ma; Xin Wen; Zhihong Yin; Zhenghui Luo; Xia Guo; Lintao Hou; Kasper Moth-Poulsen; Yu Li; Zhiguo Zhang; Changduk Yang; Donghong Yu; He Yan; Maojie Zhang; Ergang Wang

doi:10.1002/anie.202005662

A Non-Conjugated Polymer Acceptor for Efficient and Thermally Stable All-Polymer Solar Cells

Qunping Fan, Wenyan Su^*, Shanshan Chen, Tao Liu, Wenliu Zhuang, Ruijie Ma, Xin Wen, Zhihong Yin, Zhenghui Luo, Xia Guo, Lintao Hou, Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Yu Li, Zhiguo Zhang, Changduk Yang, Donghong Yu, He Yan, Maojie Zhang, Ergang Wang

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A non-conjugated polymer acceptor PF1-TS4 was firstly synthesized by embedding a thioalkyl segment in the mainchain, which shows excellent photophysical properties on par with a fully conjugated polymer, with a low optical band gap of 1.58 eV and a high absorption coefficient >10⁵ cm⁻¹, a high LUMO level of −3.89 eV, and suitable crystallinity. Matched with the polymer donor PM6, the PF1-TS4-based all-PSC achieved a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.63 %, which is ≈45 % higher than that of a device based on the small molecule acceptor counterpart IDIC16. Moreover, the PF1-TS4-based all-PSC has good thermal stability with ≈70 % of its initial PCE retained after being stored at 85 °C for 180 h, while the IDIC16-based device only retained ≈50 % of its initial PCE when stored at 85 °C for only 18 h. Our work provides a new strategy to develop efficient polymer acceptor materials by linkage of conjugated units with non-conjugated thioalkyl segments.

Original language	English
Journal	Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume	59
Issue number	45
Pages (from-to)	19835-19840
Number of pages	6
ISSN	1433-7851
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202005662
Publication status	Published - 2 Nov 2020

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We are thankful for support from the Swedish Research Council (2015-04853, 2016-06146, 2019-04683), the Swedish Research Council Formas, and the Wallenberg Foundation (2017.0186, 2016.0059). W.Z., Y.L. and L.H. thank the Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau (201804010501, 201904010381), Department of Education of Guangdong Province (2018GKTSCX041, 2017GKCXTD001), Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province (2016A010103046, 2019B1515120073, 2019B090921002), NSFC project (61774077) and China Scholarship Council (201908440047). D.Y. thanks the Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research. M.Z. and X.G. are thankful for NSFC projects (51773142 and 51973146). W.S. acknowledges project funding by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020M673054).

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all-polymer solar cells
non-conjugated polymer acceptors
power conversion efficiency
thermal stability
thioalkyl chain linkages

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Fan, Q., Su, W., Chen, S., Liu, T., Zhuang, W., Ma, R., Wen, X., Yin, Z., Luo, Z., Guo, X., Hou, L., Moth-Poulsen, K., Li, Y., Zhang, Z., Yang, C., Yu, D., Yan, H., Zhang, M., & Wang, E. (2020). A Non-Conjugated Polymer Acceptor for Efficient and Thermally Stable All-Polymer Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 59(45), 19835-19840. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202005662

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