@article{d30688f96f0f4fdd8c4ab5b8207c1fae,
title = "Metallated conjugated polymers as a new avenue towards high-efficiency polymer solar cells",
abstract = "Bulk heterojunction solar cells have been extensively studied owing to their great potential for cost-effective photovoltaic devices. Although recent advances resulted in the fabrication of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)/fullerene derivative based solar cells with efficiencies in the range 4.4-5.0%, theoretical calculations predict that the development of novel donor materials with a lower bandgap is required to exceed the power-conversion efficiency of 10%. However, all of the lower bandgap polymers developed so far have failed to reach the efficiency of P3HT-based cells. To address this issue, we synthesized a soluble, intensely coloured platinum metallopolyyne with a low bandgap of 1.85 eV. The solar cells, containing metallopolyyne/fullerene derivative blends as the photoactive material, showed a power-conversion efficiency with an average of 4.1%, without annealing or the use of spacer layers needed to achieve comparable efficiency with P3HT. This clearly demonstrates the potential of metallated conjugated polymers for efficient photovoltaic devices.",
author = "Wai-Yeung Wong and Xing-Zhu Wang and Ze He and Djuri{\v s}i{\v c}, {Aleksandra B.} and Cho-Tung Yip and Kai-Yin Cheung and Hai Wang and Mak, {Chris S. K.} and Wai-Kin Chan",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by the Research Grants Council of The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project Numbers HKBU 2024/04P, HKU 7008/04P and 7010/05P). Financial support from the Hong Kong Baptist University, the Strategic Research Theme, University Development Fund, a Seed Funding Grant and an Outstanding Young Researcher Award (administrated by The University of Hong Kong) are also acknowledged. The authors would like to thank J. Gao from the University of Hong Kong for step-profiler thickness measurements, A. M. C. Ng for ellipsometry measurements and W. C. H. Choy and HKU-CAS Joint Laboratory on New Materials and C. M. Che for the use of a glove box for encapsulation. The authors would also like to thank R. de Bettignies and S. Guillerez from CEA-INES RDI, Laboratoire Composants Solaires, in Bourges Du Lac, France for independent verification of the solar-cell results. Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to W.-Y.W. or A.B.D. Supplementary Information accompanies this paper on www.nature.com/naturematerials.",
year = "2007",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1038/nmat1909",
language = "English",
volume = "6",
pages = "521--527",
journal = "Nature Materials",
issn = "1476-1122",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "7",
}
