Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione-3,4-difluorothiophene Polymer Acceptors for Efficient All-Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Shengjian Liu; Zhipeng Kan; Simil Thomas; Federico Cruciani; Jean Luc Brédas; Pierre M. Beaujuge

doi:10.1002/anie.201604307

Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione-3,4-difluorothiophene Polymer Acceptors for Efficient All-Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Shengjian Liu, Zhipeng Kan, Simil Thomas, Federico Cruciani, Jean Luc Brédas, Pierre M. Beaujuge

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Abstract

Branched-alkyl-substituted poly(thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione-alt-3,4-difluorothiophene) (PTPD[2F]T) can be used as a polymer acceptor in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells with a low-band-gap polymer donor (PCE10) commonly used with fullerenes. The “all-polymer” BHJ devices made with PTPD[2F]T achieve efficiencies of up to 4.4 %. While, to date, most efficient polymer acceptors are based on perylenediimide or naphthalenediimide motifs, our study of PTPD[2F]T polymers shows that linear, all-thiophene systems with adequately substituted main chains can also be conducive to efficient BHJ solar cells with polymer donors.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	12996-13000
Number of pages	5
Journal	Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume	55
Issue number	42
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201604307
State	Published - Oct 10 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

density-functional calculations
electron microscopy
materials science
polymers
solar cells

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Catalysis
General Chemistry

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