A readily-accessible, random perylene diimide copolymer acceptor for all-polymer solar cells

Ping Deng; Bo Wu; Yanlian Lei; Dagang Zhou; Carr Hoi Yi Ho; Fu Rong ZHU; Beng ONG

doi:10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.06.058

A readily-accessible, random perylene diimide copolymer acceptor for all-polymer solar cells

Ping Deng, Bo Wu, Yanlian Lei, Dagang Zhou, Carr Hoi Yi Ho, Fu Rong ZHU, Beng ONG^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A new, structurally random perylene diimide (PDI) copolymer acceptor, PPDI, has been readily synthesized from Stille cross-coupling polycondensation of two pairs of regioisomeric dibromo-PDIs with 2,5-bis(trimethylstannyl)thiophene. PPDI possesses a complex structural configuration with a greatly twisted conformation, and thus exhibits weak intermolecular interactions. A solution of PPDI and a polymer donor such as PBT7-Th affords a smooth homogenous film without large crystalline domain formation. This composite film absorbs strongly throughout the visible spectrum, and when used as an active layer in all-polymer solar cells, provides a power conversion efficiency of over 5%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	20-26
Number of pages	7
Journal	Dyes and Pigments
Volume	146
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.06.058
Publication status	Published - Nov 2017

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Process Chemistry and Technology

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All-polymer solar cells
Copolymer acceptor
Perylene diimide
Random copolymer
Readily-accessible
Regioisomeric

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