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A newly designed benzodithiophene building block: tuning of torsional barrier for non-halogenated and non-aromatic solvent-processible photovoltaic polymers

Author(s)
Cho, Hye WonJeong, Sang YoungWu, ZiangLim, HyojinPark, Won-WooLee, Woo JinKrishna, Jonnadula Venkata SumanKwon, Oh HoonKim, Jin YoungWoo, Han Young
Issued Date
2023-04
DOI
10.1039/d2ta10030d
URI
https://scholarworks.unist.ac.kr/handle/201301/62316
Citation
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, v.11, no.13, pp.7053 - 7065
Abstract
A new benzodithiophene (BDT) building block, 4,8-bis(5-(2-ethylhexyl)-3-fluoro-4-hexylthiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene (3-FBDT), was designed by tailoring the positions and numbers of alkyl and F substituents by adjusting the torsional energy barrier. The incorporation of 3-FBDT into a representative BDT-based polymer donor (PBDB-T-2F) yielded a new photovoltaic copolymer (PBDB-T-2F(3/4)) with a decreased valence band level and considerably improved solubility in non-halogenated and non-aromatic solvents such as tetrahydrofuran (THF). Side-chain engineering has been widely studied to control solution processability in eco-friendly solvents, but the torsional property control of conjugated main chains has rarely been attempted. Although PBDB-T-2F showed a significant drop in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs: 17.46 to 9.73%) owing to serious aggregation caused by replacing chloroform with THF as a processing solvent, a THF-processed PBDB-T-2F(3/4) device maintained a high PCE (14.3 to 13.86%) with little detrimental effect. Charge carrier dynamics and film morphology analyses suggested that the electronic and morphological properties of PBDB-T-2F(3/4) are mainly governed by the majority moiety of the PBDB-T-2F blocks. Owing to its high solubility and outstanding photoelectrical properties, PBDB-T-2F(3/4) was successfully employed to fabricate flexible, semi-transparent, and large-area THF-processed devices. The incorporation of the 3-FBDT building block into various BDT-based photovoltaic polymers can be an effective strategy to improve the solution processability and broaden the solvent selection for fabricating eco-friendly solar cells without significantly disrupting their photoelectrical properties.
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN
2050-7488
Keyword
POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCYENERGY-LEVEL MODULATIONSOLAR-CELLSCONJUGATED POLYMERFULLERENEOPTIMIZATIONPERFORMANCEMORPHOLOGYENABLES

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