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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25638-9
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China - MOST [2019YFA0705900]
- NSFC [51820105003, 21734008, 61904181]
- Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research [2019B030302007]
- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- ONR [N000142012155]
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Recent advancements have been made in all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) based on polymerized small molecular acceptors (PSMAs). Two new A-DA'D-A small molecule acceptor based PSMAs, PS-Se and PN-Se, were synthesized to study the impact of molecular structure on photovoltaic performance. Cryogenic transmission electron microscopy and photoinduced force microscopy revealed the aggregation behavior and morphology of the polymer and acceptor blend films, leading to higher power conversion efficiency in all-PSCs.
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) based on polymerized small molecular acceptors (PSMAs) have made significant progress recently. Here, we synthesize two A-DA'D-A small molecule acceptor based PSMAs of PS-Se with benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole A'-core and PN-Se with benzotriazole A'-core, for the studies of the effect of molecular structure on the photovoltaic performance of the PSMAs. The two PSMAs possess broad absorption with PN-Se showing more red-shifted absorption than PS-Se and suitable electronic energy levels for the application as polymer acceptors in the all-PSCs with PBDB-T as polymer donor. Cryogenic transmission electron microscopy visualizes the aggregation behavior of the PBDB-T donor and the PSMA in their solutions. In addition, a bicontinuous-interpenetrating network in the PBDB-T:PN-Se blend film with aggregation size of 10 similar to 20 nm is clearly observed by the photoinduced force microscopy. The desirable morphology of the PBDB-T:PN-Se active layer leads its all-PSC showing higher power conversion efficiency of 16.16%.
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