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A generic green solvent concept boosting the power conversion efficiency of all-polymer solar cells to 11%

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 157-163

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8ee02863j

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21520102006, 21822505, 91633301, 51521002]
  2. Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]

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Advances in organic photovoltaic technologies have always been closely associated with a deeper understanding of bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) microstructure morphology, which is generally governed by the ink-formulation based on a single solvent or solvent mixtures. The relatively slow progress in all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) is mainly due to the significant difficulty in mastering their intricate BHJ morphology dealing with entanglements of polymer chains, limiting their performance typically to 8-10%. In this work, we demonstrate that the performance of all-PSCs can be further developed to a benchmark value of 11% by manipulating the BHJ morphology using a green solvent system based on cyclopentyl methyl ether (CPME). The generic applicability of the superior ink-formulation is successfully validated in four different all-polymer solar cells, exhibiting great promise of advancing all-PSCs towards industrial production and commercialization.

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