4,7-Di-2-thienyl-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole with hexylthiophene side chains and a benzodithiophene based copolymer for efficient organic solar cells

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (24) ◽  
pp. 4415-4423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junzhen Ren ◽  
Xichang Bao ◽  
Liangliang Han ◽  
Jiuxing Wang ◽  
Meng Qiu ◽  
...  

A hexylthiophene side chain can induce conformational torsion a polymer with a BDT-DTBT backbone. HighVocand PCE polymer solar cells can be achieved.

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (46) ◽  
pp. 23270-23277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Liu ◽  
Lik-Kuen Ma ◽  
Zhengke Li ◽  
Huawei Hu ◽  
Fu Kit Sheong ◽  
...  

The synergistic effects of overfluorination and alkylthiophene side chain strategies led to 10.60% efficiency for non-fullerene organic solar cells.


Author(s):  
Liang Zeng ◽  
Ruijie Ma ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Tao Liu ◽  
Yiqun Xiao ◽  
...  

We are developing both copolymers with quinoxaline (Qx) as acceptor units by fine tuning the side chains with halogen atom chlorine (Cl) and flexible alkyl engineering for efficient non-fullerene polymer solar cells.


RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (69) ◽  
pp. 39231-39240
Author(s):  
N. A. Mica ◽  
S. A. J. Almahmoud ◽  
L. Krishnan Jagadamma ◽  
G. Cooke ◽  
I. D. W. Samuel

The chemical nature of the acceptor side chain plays an important role in the processability and photovoltaic performance of EDOT-based small molecule donors.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (43) ◽  
pp. 23978-23995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Ayoub ◽  
Jolanta B. Lagowski

We investigated the effect of lengths, types, and branching positions of side chains on the binding energies of monomer/fullerene pairings.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (31) ◽  
pp. 9581-9590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Wang ◽  
Miaomiao Li ◽  
Ying Sui ◽  
Zhongli Wang ◽  
Ziqi Liang ◽  
...  

Six wide-bandgap polymers with different side chains on both benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene and [2,2′-bithiophene]-4,4′-dicarboxylate units for efficient fullerene-free organic solar cells.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 702-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haohao Feng ◽  
Xin Song ◽  
Ming Zhang ◽  
Jiangsheng Yu ◽  
Zhuohan Zhang ◽  
...  

Two novel dithieno[3,2-b:2,3-d]pyrrol fused electron acceptors (FREAs) with branched alkyl side-chains have been developed.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (13) ◽  
pp. 7077-7085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianyu Yuan ◽  
Wanli Ma

The number of conjugated side chains on the donor polymer can greatly affect the performance of all-polymer solar cells.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (42) ◽  
pp. 16677-16689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilona M. Heckler ◽  
Jurgen Kesters ◽  
Maxime Defour ◽  
Huguette Penxten ◽  
Bruno Van Mele ◽  
...  

The position and nature of side chains in the donor–acceptor copolymer were investigated in terms of stability in polymer solar cells.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (26) ◽  
pp. 13748-13756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaël H. L. Heintges ◽  
Pieter J. Leenaers ◽  
René A. J. Janssen

The effects of cold and hot processing on the performance of polymer–fullerene solar cells are investigated for polymers designed to exhibit temperature-dependent aggregation in solution via second-position branched alkyl side chains.


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