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High Performance Organic Solar Cells Fabricated Using Recycled Transparent Conductive Substrates
摘要： The power conversion e?ciency (PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs) has been gradually increasing over the past years, but these emerging photovoltaic devices still su?er from relatively short lifetimes. To promote circular economy and reduce costly electronic materials wastes, we explore the possibility of recycling durable zinc oxide coated indium tin oxide (ITO/ZnO) from nonfullerene OSCs through sequential ultrasonication in a series of solvents followed by thermal annealing. With the adequate cleaning sequence, the recycled ITO/ZnO substrates produce PCEs of 8.65%, a value comparable to the PCEs obtained with freshly prepared substrates (8.73%). Our results also indicate that isopropanol gradually removes the zinc oxide layer and should thus be avoided when attempting multiple successive recycling of the same substrate. ITO/ZnO substrates recycled 10 times with and without isopropanol yield PCEs of 5.14% and 7.93%, respectively. By optimizing the recycling procedure, we introduce a simple strategy to considerably increase the lifecycle of transparent electrode substrates employed in organic electronic devices and decrease the amount of wastes from the electronic industry.
关键词： Recycling,Zinc oxide,PBDB-T,Organic electronics,Nonfullerene acceptors
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Exploring a fused 2-(thiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (T-TT) building block to construct n-type polymer toward high performance all-polymer solar cells
摘要： In the field of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs), exploring new electron-donating units (D) to match with electron-accepting units (A) is an important subject to promote the performance of D-A type polymer acceptors. Herein, we developed a fused D unit 2-(thiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (T-TT) derivated from the famous 2-(2-(thiophen-2-yl)vinyl)thiophene (TVT) unit. With classical naphthalene diimide (NDI) as A unit, the new D-A polymer PNDI-T-TT exhibits enhanced absorption coefficient, electron mobility and miscibility with donor polymer in comparison with the analogous PNDI-TVT polymer. These advantages can be attributed to the enlarged conjugation and reduced rotamers due to the fused T-TT unit, leading to stronger intermolecular interaction. When blending with the donor polymer PBDB-T, both NDI-based polymers can form better interpenetrating nanostructures than the corresponding blend films with donor polymer J71. Finally, PBDB-T:PNDI-T-TT device obtains a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 6.1%, which is much higher than that of PBDB-T:PNDI-TVT device (4.24%). These results demonstrate that n-type polymer based on fused T-TT unit can ameliorate the absorption coefficient, molecular aggregation and charge carrier mobility and consequently achieve improved photovoltaic performance in comparison with classic TVT unit.
关键词： All-polymer solar cells,2-(2-(thiophen-2-yl)vinyl)thiophene,PBDB-T,naphthalene diimide,photovoltaic
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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PBDB-T and its derivatives: A family of polymer donors enables over 17% efficiency in organic photovoltaics
摘要： Due to the advantages such as being low cost, light weight, and flexible as well as having low toxicity, organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted extensive interest. The field of OSCs progressed dramatically after the emergence of non-fullerene small molecule acceptors. In addition to the development of these acceptor materials, a key driver in the rapid progress of OSC research was the introduction of the PBDB-T polymer and its derivatives. In this review, we first give a brief overview of the structural features of PBDB-T congeners and the strategies used to design these polymers. The interesting aggregation effects of PBDB-T congeners in solution and solid-states are highlighted. Recent advances in the morphological understanding OSCs based on PBDB-T congeners are discussed using selected examples. In addition, the versatile applications of PBDB-T congeners in OSC devices, including interfacially modified binary, ternary and tandem devices, are also summarized. Importantly, we assess the energy loss and provide a meta-analysis of a library of high-performance PBDB-T type polymers, which are compared with other types of conjugated polymers. Finally, the remaining questions and the prospects of these exciting polymers are suggested.
关键词： organic solar cells,non-fullerene acceptors,photovoltaic performance,PBDB-T,polymer donors
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22