Carboxylate substitution position influencing polymer properties and enabling non-fullerene organic solar cells with high open circuit voltage and low voltage loss

Liu, Jing; Ma, Lik-Kuen; Sheong, Fu Kit; Zhang, Lin; Hu, Huawei; Zhang, Jing-Xuan; Zhang, Jianquan; Li, Zhengke; Ma, Chao; Han, Xu; Pan, Ding; Ade, Harald; Ma, Wei; Yan, He

doi:10.1039/C8TA04935A

Title: Carboxylate substitution position influencing polymer properties and enabling non-fullerene organic solar cells with high open circuit voltage and low voltage loss

Journal Article · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Journal of Materials Chemistry. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/C8TA04935A· OSTI ID:1467534

Liu, Jing ^[1];

^[2]; Sheong, Fu Kit ^[2]; Zhang, Lin ^[3];

^[4]; Zhang, Jing-Xuan ^[2]; Zhang, Jianquan ^[2]; Li, Zhengke ^[5]; Ma, Chao ^[6]; Han, Xu ^[6]; Pan, Ding ^[7]; Ade, Harald ^[4]; Ma, Wei ^[3];

^[1]

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology-Shenzhen Research Institute, Nanshan Shenzhen 518057, China, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration & Reconstruction
Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration & Reconstruction, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
School of Material Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, HKUST Fok Ying Tung Research Institute

A novel polymer P3TAE enables a high V _OC of 1.20 V and a PCE of 8.10% for non-fullerene OSCs.

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