Pyrene-benzo[1,2,5]thiadiazole based conjugated polymers for application in BHJ solar cells
Pyrene-benzo[1,2,5]thiadiazole based conjugated polymers for application in BHJ solar cells
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基于芘-苯并[1,2,5]噻二唑的共轭聚合物在BHJ太阳能电池中的应用
DOI:
10.1016/j.jscs.2020.04.004
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发表时间:
2020-06-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
Lidzey, David G.
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作者:
Alqurashy, Bakhet A.;Iraqi, Ahmed;Lidzey, David G.
Ethylhexyloxy-functionalised pyrene (P-EH) was prepared and copolymerised with both dithienyl-benzo[c]-[1,2,5]thiadiazole and dibithiophenyl-benzo[c]-[1,2,5]thiadiazole via a Stille coupling polymerisation method to yield PPEH-DTBT-8 and PPEH-DT2BT-8, respectively. A comparative study was conducted to assess the impact of substituting thiophene for bithiophene repeat units upon the resulting properties of the conjugated polymers. PPEH-DT2BT-8 which has bithiophene spacers between pyrene and benzothiadiazole repeat units, exhibited a narrower optical and electrochemical band gap relative to PPEH-DTBT-8; a consequence of the incorporating bithiophene spacer units which promote intramolecular charge transfer between the electron donating and electron accepting moieties. Both PPEH-DTBT-8 and PPEH-DT2BT-8 showed deep HOMO levels of -5.54 and -5.50 eV, respectively. The polymers possess good thermal stabilities with degradation temperatures in excess of 310 degrees C. The photovoltaic performance of the two polymers was studied by fabricating bulk heterojunction (BHJ) photovoltaic devices using PC70BM as the acceptor. PPEH-DTBT-8 and PPEH-DT2BT-8 demonstrated efficiencies of 0.33 and 1.83%, respectively. The higher efficiency of PPEH-DT2BT-8 can be attributed to vastly improved FF and J(sc) values. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University.