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Xiyue Yuan1,2, Qian Wang1, Dangqiang Zhu1
1CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-based Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, China.
Abstract:
The chlorination strategy has gradually become a promising approach to improve the open circuit voltage (VOC ) in polymer solar cells. In this work, by using an efficient thiazole-induced strategy in a polymer backbone, three thieno[3,4-b]thiophene (TT)-based polymers-PBClTTz-0, PBClTTz-1, and PBClTTz-2-are designed and synthesized with a Cl-substituted benzodithiophene (BDT) moiety and a thiazole unit as a π spacer. As expected, all of the polymers show a desirable open circuit voltage (VOC ) of >0.94 V in the solar cells; specifically, the voltage can reach 1.01 V for polymer PBClTTz-2 with two thiazole moieties. In addition, due to the excellent surface morphology and weak recombination of the active layer, photovoltaic devices based on PBClTTz-1 with one thiazole unit exhibit the highest power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.42%, which is noticeably superior to the fluorinated analogue PBClTTz-0 (6.85%). This work reveals the influence of the thiazole unit in a quinoid polymer backbone and confirms that the Donor-Acceptor(π)-Quinoid strategy is a promising construction method in molecular design.
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