Citation: You-di Zhang, Lai-tao Shi, Yi-wang Chen. Overview and Outlook of Random Copolymerization Strategy for Designing Polymer Solar Cells[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, ;2019, 50(1): 13-26. doi: 10.11777/j.issn1000-3304.2018.18193 shu

Overview and Outlook of Random Copolymerization Strategy for Designing Polymer Solar Cells

You-di Zhang ^1,2 ,
Lai-tao Shi ^1,2 ,
Yi-wang Chen ^1,2,,

Corresponding author: Yi-wang Chen, ywchen@ncu.edu.cn
Received Date: 31 August 2018
Revised Date: 30 October 2018
Available Online: 11 December 2018

Organic polymer solar cells which have achieved rapid development in recent years, therefore, attract wide attention around the world. At present, compared with fullerene polymer solar cells, the energy conversion efficiency (PCE) of non-fullerene polymer solar cells has already exceeded 14%. Organic photovoltaic (OPV) materials were widely studied including small-molecule/polymer donors and small-molecule/polymer acceptors. However, the studies on random conjugated polymer donors and acceptors are relatively rare. By introducing the third component into D-A conjugated polymer system to construct random conjugated polymer donor or acceptor, the absorption and the electron orbital energy levels could be well adjusted, and the open-circuit voltage (V_oc), short-circuit current density (J_sc), and fill factor (FF) could be improved. Moreover, this strategy could also decrease the crystallinity of D-A polymer donor or acceptor availably, promoting the formation of better blend film morphology, appropriate phase separation size, and increase the electron or hole mobility. In order to adjust blend topography, the design and synthesis of molecular structures played an important role to improve the PCE of organic solar cells. Adding different ratios of electron-rich unit or electron-deficient unit to lower the strong crystallinity of polymers, which resulted in large phase separation, is not conducive to effective charge transport, thus reducing the efficiency of organic photovoltaics. Based on this situation, fullerene/non-fullerene polymer organic solar cells with p-type random conjugated polymer as electron donor and n-type ternary conjugated polymer as electron acceptor are summarized. At present, the total polymer photovoltaic efficiency based on the polymer donor (PBDB-T) and the random conjugated polymer acceptor (PNDI-2T-TR) reach up to 8.13%, which is one of the highest energy conversion efficiencies of polymer organic solar cells using the random copolymer as the electron acceptor so far, showing a good development prospect. Finally, the future development of the random conjugated polymer solar cells is summarized and prospected in this review.
- Random conjugated polymers,
- Polymer solar cells,
- Ternary conjugate polymers,
- Non-fullerene organic photovoltaics
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