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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
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WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202308306
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Acceptor; Acceptor-Acceptor Backbone; Narrow Bandgap; Polymer; Solar Cells
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Researchers synthesized a highly pure and reactive electron-deficient biselenophene imide monomer and copolymerized it with a dibrominated monomer to develop high-performance polymer acceptors for all-polymer solar cells. The resulting polymer showed improved molecular weight, narrower band gap, and higher electron mobility compared to the donor-acceptor type counterpart. The all-polymer solar cells based on the new polymer achieved a remarkable efficiency of 17.77%.
The shortage of narrow band gap polymer acceptors with high electron mobility is the major bottleneck for developing efficient all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs). Herein, we synthesize a distannylated electron-deficient biselenophene imide monomer (BSeI-Tin) with high purity/reactivity, affording an excellent chance to access acceptor-acceptor (A-A) type polymer acceptors. Copolymerizing BSeI-Tin with dibrominated monomer Y5-Br, the resulting A-A polymer PY5-BSeI shows a higher molecular weight, narrower band gap, deeper-lying frontier molecular orbital levels and larger electron mobility than the donor-acceptor type counterpart PY5-BSe. Consequently, the PY5-BSeI-based all-PSCs deliver a remarkable efficiency of 17.77 % with a high short-circuit current of 24.93 mA cm(-2) and fill factor of 75.83 %. This efficiency is much higher than that (10.70 %) of the PY5-BSe-based devices. Our study demonstrates that BSeI is a promising building block for constructing high-performance polymer acceptors and stannylation of electron-deficient building blocks offers an excellent approach to developing A-A type polymers for all-PSCs and even beyond.
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