Solid additive tuning of polymer blend morphology enables non-halogenated-solvent all-polymer solar cells with an efficiency of over 17
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) have attracted considerable interest owing to their superior device stability and mechanical robustness. Recently, all-PSCs have achieved high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 17% benefitting from the development of polymerized small molecular acceptors. H...
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Published in | Energy & environmental science Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 4157 - 4166 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Cambridge
Royal Society of Chemistry
12.10.2022
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Summary: | All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) have attracted considerable interest owing to their superior device stability and mechanical robustness. Recently, all-PSCs have achieved high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 17% benefitting from the development of polymerized small molecular acceptors. However, most all-PSCs are processed using halogenated solvents that are hazardous to the environment. Herein, non-halogenated solvent toluene is utilized with a large amount of volatilizable DTT (dithieno[3,2-
b
:2′,3′-
d
]thiophene) solid additive, for eco-friendly and highly efficient all-PSCs. The DTT solid-additive treatment can fine-tune the aggregation of the polymer donor and polymer acceptors, and the resulting active layer possesses appropriate domain size and high domain purity with bi-continuous-interpenetrating networks. Consequently, the treatment of DTT additive enables the high-performance non-halogenated solvent processed all-PSCs based on PBQ6:PYF-T-
o
with PCE up to 17.06% (certified PCE of 16.6%), which is among the highest efficiencies in non-halogenated-solvent-processed all-PSCs to date. Importantly, the toluene-processed active layer of all-PSCs can be successfully fabricated under ambient conditions with the help of the DTT additive, and the device fabricated under ambient conditions showed a higher PCE of 15.74%. This study highlights the importance of a solid-additive strategy in controlling the active layer morphology for practical applications of high-performance and environment-friendly all-PSCs.
The treatment of toluene solvent and DTT additive enables the PBQ6:PYF-T-
o
-based all-PSC devices with PCE up to 17.06%, which is one of the highest value in non-halogenated-processed all-PSCs to date. |
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Bibliography: | https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ee01727j Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI USDOE AC02-05CH11231 |
ISSN: | 1754-5692 1754-5706 |
DOI: | 10.1039/d2ee01727j |