Journal Article10.1002/ADMA.201800868
Over 14% Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by a Chlorinated Polymer Donor.
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TL;DR: This work establishes a more economical design paradigm of replacing fluorine with chlorine for preparing highly efficient polymer donors and exhibits higher open circuit voltage than the PBDB-T-2Cl-based PSCs, leading to an outstanding power conversion efficiency of over 14%.
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Abstract: Fluorine-contained polymers, which have been widely used in highly efficient polymer solar cells (PSCs), are rather costly due to their complicated synthesis and low yields in the preparation of components. Here, the feasibility of replacing the critical fluorine substituents in high-performance photovoltaic polymer donors with chlorine is demonstrated, and two polymeric donors, PBDB-T-2F and PBDB-T-2Cl, are synthesized and compared in parallel. The synthesis of PBDB-T-2Cl is much simpler than that of PBDB-T-2F. The two polymers have very similar optoelectronic and morphological properties, except the chlorinated polymer possess lower molecular energy levels than the fluorinated one. As a result, the PBDB-T-2Cl-based PSCs exhibit higher open circuit voltage (Voc ) than the PBDB-T-2F-based devices, leading to an outstanding power conversion efficiency of over 14%. This work establishes a more economical design paradigm of replacing fluorine with chlorine for preparing highly efficient polymer donors.
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