Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 61, Issue 27, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202203949
Keywords
C-H Activation; Hole-Transporting Materials; Iron-Catalysis; Perovskite Solar Cells; Polycondensation
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- MEXT KAKENHI [19H05459]
- JST SICORP [JPMJSC18H1]
- JSPS KAKENHI [19K15555, 21K18956]
- JSPS
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21K18956, 19H05459, 19K15555] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Polytriarylamine, a popular hole-transporting material in solar cells, has suboptimal conductivity and recombination at the interface. By inserting a bithiophene unit between two triarylamine units, the conjugation and performance of the material are improved, resulting in high efficiency solar cells.
[100]Polytriarylamine is a popular hole-transporting materials (HTMs) despite its suboptimal conductivity and significant recombination at the interface in a solar cell setup. Having noted insufficient conjugation among the triarylamine units along the polymer backbone, we inserted a bithiophene unit between two triarylamine units through iron-catalyzed C-H/C-H coupling of a triarylamine/thiophene monomer so that two units conjugate effectively via four quinoidal rings when the molecule functions as HTM. The obtained triarylamine/bithiophene copolymer (TABT) used as HTM showed a high-performance in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite (MAPbI(3)) solar cells. Mesityl substituted TABT forms a uniform film, shows high hole-carrier mobility, and has an ionization potential (IP=5.40 eV) matching that of MAPbI(3). We fabricated a solar cell device with a power conversion efficiency of 21.3 % and an open-circuit voltage of 1.15 V, which exceeds the performance of devices using reference standard such as poly[bis(4-phenyl)(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)amine (PTAA) and Spiro-OMeTAD.
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