Chlorination of Side Chains: A Strategy for Achieving a High Open Circuit Voltage Over 1.0 V in Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b ']dithiophene-Based Non-Fullerene Solar Cells

Chao, Pengjie1,4; Mu, Zhao1; Wang, Huan1; Mo, Daize1; Chen, Hui1; Meng, Hong4; Chen, Wei2,3; He, Feng1

2018-05

10.1021/acsaem.8b00506

ACS Applied Energy Materials   影响因子和分区

2574-0962

A benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-based donor material with chlorine atoms substituted on its side chains, named PBClT, was designed and developed in order to enhance the open-circuit voltage (V-oc) without decreasing charge carrier transfer in the corresponding blend films. The chlorinated polymer, PBClT, was an excellent donor material possessing a blue-shifted absorbance, resulting in desired complementary light absorption with low-band gap acceptor materials, for example, ITIC. In addition, the multiple chlorination dramatically decreased the HOMO energy level of PBClT, and the V-oc of the corresponding device increased to 1.01 V, which is much higher than that of the nonchlorine analogous, PTB7-Th, with a V-oc of approximately 0.82 V. The GIWAXS experiments displayed that PBClT/ITIC blend films showed a "face-on" orientation, which suggested that the chlorine substituents on the side chains favored pi-pi stacking in the direction perpendicular to the electron flow in photovoltaic devices. Furthermore, the PBClT/ITIC blend film exhibited a pi-pi stacking distance of 3.85 angstrom, very close to the distance of its nonchlorine analogous blend film with a distance of approximately 3.74 angstrom, which resulted in a slightly decrease of current density after multiple-chlorine-atom substitution. Based on this result, the introduction of multiple chlorine atoms on the perpendicular side chains not only adjusted the molecular energy level of the polymer using the electron withdrawing ability of the chlorine atoms but also subtly avoided obvious morphological changes that could result from strong steric hindrance in the backbones of the polymer. The device based PBClT/ITIC achieved a maximum PCE of 8.46% with a high V-oc of 1.01 V, which is an improvement in the PCE of approximately 22% compared with the performance of PTB7-Th-based device in our parallel experiments.

chlorination side-chain engineering high open circuit voltage polymer solar cells nonfullerene acceptor charge transfer

ESCI ; SCI ; EI

英语

第一

Shenzhen Fundamental Research and Discipline Layout project[JCYJ20170817111214740] ; Southern University of Science and Technology[] ; Office of Science[] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[51773087]

Materials Science

Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

WOS:000458705500070

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

20200708177146

Atoms ; Blue shift ; Cell engineering ; Charge transfer ; Chlorination ; Energy gap ; Light absorption ; Polymer solar cells ; Polymers ; Timing circuits

Biomedical Engineering:461.1 ; Pulse Circuits:713.4 ; Light/Optics:741.1 ; Chemical Reactions:802.2 ; Polymeric Materials:815.1 ; Atomic and Molecular Physics:931.3

Web of Science

1.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Chem, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China;
2.Argonne Natl Lab, Div Mat Sci, 9700 Cass Ave, Lemont, IL 60439 USA;
3.Univ Chicago, Inst Mol Engn, 5640 South Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 USA;
4.Peking Univ, Shenzhen Grad Sch, Sch Adv Mat, Shenzhen 518055, Peoples R China

Chao, Pengjie,Mu, Zhao,Wang, Huan,et al. Chlorination of Side Chains: A Strategy for Achieving a High Open Circuit Voltage Over 1.0 V in Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b ']dithiophene-Based Non-Fullerene Solar Cells[J]. ACS Applied Energy Materials,2018,1(5):2365-2372.

Chao, Pengjie.,Mu, Zhao.,Wang, Huan.,Mo, Daize.,Chen, Hui.,...&He, Feng.(2018).Chlorination of Side Chains: A Strategy for Achieving a High Open Circuit Voltage Over 1.0 V in Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b ']dithiophene-Based Non-Fullerene Solar Cells.ACS Applied Energy Materials,1(5),2365-2372.

Chao, Pengjie,et al."Chlorination of Side Chains: A Strategy for Achieving a High Open Circuit Voltage Over 1.0 V in Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b ']dithiophene-Based Non-Fullerene Solar Cells".ACS Applied Energy Materials 1.5(2018):2365-2372.