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Title: A Difluoro‐Monobromo End Group Enables High‐Performance Polymer Acceptor and Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells Processable with Green Solvent under Ambient Condition

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, a difluoro‐monobromo end group is designed and synthesized, which is then used to construct a novel polymer acceptor (named PY2F‐T) yielding high‐performance all‐polymer solar cells with 15.22% efficiency. The fluorination strategy can increase the intramolecular charge transfer and interchain packing of the previous PY‐T based acceptor, and significantly improve photon harvesting and charge mobility of the resulting polymer acceptor. In addition, detailed morphology investigations reveal that the PY2F‐T‐based blend shows smaller domain spacing and higher domain purity, which significantly suppress charge recombination as supported by time‐resolved techniques. These polymer properties enable simultaneously enhanced J SC and FF of the PY2F‐T‐based devices, eventually delivering device efficiencies of over 15%, significantly outperforming that of the devices based on the non‐fluorinated PY‐T polymer (13%). More importantly, the PY2F‐T‐based active layers can be processed under ambient conditions and still achieve a 14.37% efficiency. They can also be processed using non‐halogenated solvent o ‐xylene (no additive) and yield a decent performance of 13.05%. This work demonstrates the success of the fluorination strategy in the design of high‐performance polymer acceptors, which provide guidelines for developing new all‐PSCs with better efficiencies and stabilities for commercial applications.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [2];  [4];  [2];  [5];  [5];  [2];  [2];  [5];  [1];  [4];  [6]; ORCiD logo [7]
  1. Department of Chemistry Guangdong‐Hong Kong‐Macao Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials Energy Institute and Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong 999077 China, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology‐Shenzhen Research Institute No. 9, Yuexing 1st RD, Hi‐tech Park, Nanshan Shenzhen 518057 China
  2. Department of Chemistry Guangdong‐Hong Kong‐Macao Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials Energy Institute and Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong 999077 China
  3. The Institute for Advanced Studies Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China
  4. Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories (ORaCEL) North Carolina State University Raleigh NC 27695 United States
  5. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences Centre for Soft Matter Science and Engineering Key Lab of Polymer Chemistry &, Physics of the Ministry of Education College of Chemistry Peking University Beijing 100871 China
  6. The Institute for Advanced Studies Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China, Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Mold Zhengzhou University Ministry of Education Zhengzhou 450002 China
  7. Department of Chemistry Guangdong‐Hong Kong‐Macao Joint Laboratory of Optoelectronic and Magnetic Functional Materials Energy Institute and Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Tissue Restoration and Reconstruction Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong 999077 China, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology‐Shenzhen Research Institute No. 9, Yuexing 1st RD, Hi‐tech Park, Nanshan Shenzhen 518057 China, Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 China
Publication Date:
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1781209
Grant/Contract Number:  
DE‐AC02‐05CH11231
Resource Type:
Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Functional Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Advanced Functional Materials Journal Volume: 31 Journal Issue: 25; Journal ID: ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Yu, Han, Luo, Siwei, Sun, Rui, Angunawela, Indunil, Qi, Zhenyu, Peng, Zhengxing, Zhou, Wentao, Han, Han, Wei, Rong, Pan, Mingao, Cheung, Andy Man Hong, Zhao, Dahui, Zhang, Jianquan, Ade, Harald, Min, Jie, and Yan, He. A Difluoro‐Monobromo End Group Enables High‐Performance Polymer Acceptor and Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells Processable with Green Solvent under Ambient Condition. Germany: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1002/adfm.202100791.
Yu, Han, Luo, Siwei, Sun, Rui, Angunawela, Indunil, Qi, Zhenyu, Peng, Zhengxing, Zhou, Wentao, Han, Han, Wei, Rong, Pan, Mingao, Cheung, Andy Man Hong, Zhao, Dahui, Zhang, Jianquan, Ade, Harald, Min, Jie, & Yan, He. A Difluoro‐Monobromo End Group Enables High‐Performance Polymer Acceptor and Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells Processable with Green Solvent under Ambient Condition. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202100791
Yu, Han, Luo, Siwei, Sun, Rui, Angunawela, Indunil, Qi, Zhenyu, Peng, Zhengxing, Zhou, Wentao, Han, Han, Wei, Rong, Pan, Mingao, Cheung, Andy Man Hong, Zhao, Dahui, Zhang, Jianquan, Ade, Harald, Min, Jie, and Yan, He. Sun . "A Difluoro‐Monobromo End Group Enables High‐Performance Polymer Acceptor and Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells Processable with Green Solvent under Ambient Condition". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202100791.
@article{osti_1781209,
title = {A Difluoro‐Monobromo End Group Enables High‐Performance Polymer Acceptor and Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells Processable with Green Solvent under Ambient Condition},
author = {Yu, Han and Luo, Siwei and Sun, Rui and Angunawela, Indunil and Qi, Zhenyu and Peng, Zhengxing and Zhou, Wentao and Han, Han and Wei, Rong and Pan, Mingao and Cheung, Andy Man Hong and Zhao, Dahui and Zhang, Jianquan and Ade, Harald and Min, Jie and Yan, He},
abstractNote = {Abstract In this paper, a difluoro‐monobromo end group is designed and synthesized, which is then used to construct a novel polymer acceptor (named PY2F‐T) yielding high‐performance all‐polymer solar cells with 15.22% efficiency. The fluorination strategy can increase the intramolecular charge transfer and interchain packing of the previous PY‐T based acceptor, and significantly improve photon harvesting and charge mobility of the resulting polymer acceptor. In addition, detailed morphology investigations reveal that the PY2F‐T‐based blend shows smaller domain spacing and higher domain purity, which significantly suppress charge recombination as supported by time‐resolved techniques. These polymer properties enable simultaneously enhanced J SC and FF of the PY2F‐T‐based devices, eventually delivering device efficiencies of over 15%, significantly outperforming that of the devices based on the non‐fluorinated PY‐T polymer (13%). More importantly, the PY2F‐T‐based active layers can be processed under ambient conditions and still achieve a 14.37% efficiency. They can also be processed using non‐halogenated solvent o ‐xylene (no additive) and yield a decent performance of 13.05%. This work demonstrates the success of the fluorination strategy in the design of high‐performance polymer acceptors, which provide guidelines for developing new all‐PSCs with better efficiencies and stabilities for commercial applications.},
doi = {10.1002/adfm.202100791},
journal = {Advanced Functional Materials},
number = 25,
volume = 31,
place = {Germany},
year = {Sun May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Sun May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}

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