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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
卷 2, 期 47, 页码 20189-20195出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ta05641h
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- EPSRC through the Plastic Electronics Doctoral Training Centre [EP/G037515/1]
- Scalable Low Cost Organic Photovoltaic Solar Cells (SCALLOPS) Project [EP/J500021/1]
- Scalable Low Cost Organic Photovoltaic Solar Cells (SCALLOPS) Project (TP) [100897]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/J500021/1, 1226723, 1104275, EP/J021199/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/J500021/1, EP/J021199/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Thieno[3,4 b] thiophene-alt-benzodithiophene (PTB7) is a promising donor-acceptor copolymer that has achieved high efficiencies (7-9%) in organic solar cells but suffers from poor stability and degrades when exposed to light and oxygen. Using resonant Raman spectroscopy to examine the nature of this photo-oxidation, three main changes to the vibrations of the conjugated backbone are observed: (1) shift of the benzodithiophene (BDT) C=C stretch peak at similar to 1489 cm(-1) up to similar to 1499 cm(-1); (2) increase in the relative intensity of coupled fused thiophene and benzene C=C stretch peaks at similar to 1535 and similar to 1575 cm(-1); (3) appearance of a new peak at similar to 1650 cm(-1); which suggest oxidation takes place on the BDT unit without loss of conjugation. In situ accelerated photo-degradation reveals that the observed oxidation is the initial step of degradation, which is followed by reductions in absorption and Raman scattering intensities that indicate the loss of chromophores by a second, more extensive oxidation step. Blending PTB7 with PC70BM is found to accelerate the polymer's degradation, and further shift the BDT peak to similar to 1509 cm(-1). Using density functional theory to simulate Raman spectra for several possible oxidised products, the initial oxidation is best described by hydroxylation of 3rd and 7th positions on the BDT donor unit.
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