Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 6151-6158Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22275
Keywords
organic solar cells; non-fullerene; crystallinity; end group engineering; side chains
Funding
- MOST of China [2018YFA0208504, 2017YFA0204702]
- NSFC of China [51773207, 21574138, 91633301]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB12030200]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [XK1802-2]
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Side chains properties of conjugated polymers, such as the length, branching point, and heteroatom, have been widely studied for application in organic solar cells (OSCs), but the end groups of side chains have been rarely reported. In this work, we systematically explored a series of new conjugated polymers with distinct side-chain end groups for high performance non-fullerene OSCs. The key components for the polymers contained functionalized units as the end groups of side chains, such as Br, alkyloxy (OMe), and alkylthienyl (T) groups. We found that the new conjugated polymers have similar absorption spectra and crystallinity with the polymer without substitution, but they showed distinct photovoltaic performance in solar cells. When the polymer without functionalized units had a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 9.94%, the modified conjugated polymers provided high PCEs of over 13% with significantly enhanced photocurrent and fill factors. In addition, they also show additive-free and highly stable characteristics. These results demonstrate that end group engineering on side chains is a promising strategy to design new conjugated polymers toward efficient OSCs.
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