Highly Flexible and Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells with High-Viscosity Processing Polymer Additive toward Potential of Stretchable Devices

Shanshan Chen; Sungwoo Jung; Hye Jin Cho; Na-Hyang Kim; Seungon Jung; Jianqiu Xu; Jiyeon Oh; Yongjoon Cho; Hyeongwon Kim; Byongkyu Lee; Yujin An; Chunfeng Zhang; Min Xiao; Hyungson Ki; Zhi-Guo Zhang; Ju-Young Kim; Yongfang Li; Hyesung Park; Changduk Yang

doi:10.1002/anie.201807513

Highly Flexible and Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells with High-Viscosity Processing Polymer Additive toward Potential of Stretchable Devices

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2018 Oct 1;57(40):13277-13282. doi: 10.1002/anie.201807513. Epub 2018 Sep 4.

Authors

Shanshan Chen¹, Sungwoo Jung¹, Hye Jin Cho¹, Na-Hyang Kim², Seungon Jung¹, Jianqiu Xu³, Jiyeon Oh¹, Yongjoon Cho¹, Hyeongwon Kim⁴, Byongkyu Lee¹, Yujin An¹, Chunfeng Zhang³, Min Xiao³, Hyungson Ki⁴, Zhi-Guo Zhang⁵, Ju-Young Kim², Yongfang Li⁵, Hyesung Park¹, Changduk Yang¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Energy Engineering, School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Perovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials Center, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, 44919, South Korea.
² School of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, 44919, South Korea.
³ National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
⁴ School of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, 44919, South Korea.
⁵ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.

PMID: 30113743
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201807513

Abstract

Considering the potential applications of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) as wearable power generators, there is an urgent need to develop photoactive layers that possess intrinsic mechanical endurance, while maintaining a high power-conversion efficiency (PCE).Herein a strategy is demonstrated to simultaneously control the intercalation behavior and nanocrystallite size in the polymer-polymer blend by using a newly developed, high-viscosity polymeric additive, poly(dimethylsiloxane-co-methyl phenethylsiloxane) (PDPS), into the TQ-F:N2200 all-PSC matrix. A mechanically robust 10wt% PDPS blend film with a great toughness was obtained. Our results provide a feasible route for producing high-performance ductile all-PSCs, which can potentially be used to realize stretchable all-PSCs as a linchpin of next-generation electronics.

Keywords: PDPS; all-polymer solar cells; flexibility; mechanical robustness; polymer additive.

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