Sulfanilic Acid Pending on a Graphene Scaffold: Novel, Efficient Synthesis and Much Enhanced Polymer Solar Cell Efficiency and Stability Using It as a Hole Extraction Layer

• Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 10; no. 29; pp. 24679 - 24688
• Main Authors: Zhao, Fu-Gang, Hu, Cheng-Min, Kong, Yu-Ting, Pan, Bingyige, Yao, Xiang, Chu, Jian, Xu, Zi-Wen, Zuo, Biao, Li, Wei-Shi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 25.07.2018
• Subjects: air; fluorides; graphene; graphene oxide; heat treatment; nitrogen; polymers; solar cells; solvents; functionalized graphene; polymer solar cell; sulfonation; defluorination; graphite fluoride; hole extraction material

In this contribution, we describe a novel, facile, and scalable methodology for high degree functionalization toward graphene by the reaction between bulk graphite fluoride and in situ generated amine anion. Using this, the rationally designed sulfanilic acid pending on a graphene scaffold (G-SO3H),...