Citation: Weichao Zhang, Jianhua Huang, Xiaoyu Lv, Ming Zhang, Wanru Liu, Tianzi Xu, Jun Ning, Alata Hexig, Feng Liu, Aiju Xu, Chuanlang Zhan. Chlorinated phthalimide polymer donor as ultra-wide bandgap and deep HOMO guest for achieving highly efficient polymer solar cells[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2023, 34(4): 107436. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.04.034 shu

Chlorinated phthalimide polymer donor as ultra-wide bandgap and deep HOMO guest for achieving highly efficient polymer solar cells

Weichao Zhang ^a ,
Jianhua Huang ^b ,
Xiaoyu Lv ^c ,
Ming Zhang ^d ,
Wanru Liu ^a ,
Tianzi Xu ^a ,
Jun Ning ^c ,
Alata Hexig ^c ,
Feng Liu ^d ,
Aiju Xu ^{a, *,} ,
Chuanlang Zhan ^{a, *,}

a.
Inner Mongolia Autonomous University Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials Chemistry and Devices (AMC&DLab), Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Green Catalysis, College of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huhhot 010022, China
b.
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China
c.
Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Physics and Chemistry, College of Physics and Electronic Information, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010022, China
d.
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Center for Advanced Electronic Materials and Devices, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

xuaj@imnu.edu.cn

clzhan@iccas.ac.cn

Received Date: 28 February 2022
Revised Date: 29 March 2022
Accepted Date: 11 April 2022
Available Online: 15 April 2022

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Quaternary approach has been receiving more and more attention due to its effectiveness in improving solar cell performance, while synthesis/selection of the fourth component is yet a key issue. Herein, we report a chlorinated phthalimide based donor polymer (namely PhI-Cl) having an ultra-wide bandgap (2.10 eV) and a deep HOMO (−5.58 eV) level. Addition of PhI-Cl as the third component of PM6:Y6 and the fourth of PM6:Y6:PC₇₁BM increases both hole and electron mobilities and gives rise to more balanced charge carriers mobilities. Both the short-circuit current-density and fill-factor are increased and open-circuit voltage is well maintained, delivering 17.0% and 18.1% efficiencies, respectively. These results demonstrate that chlorination on the side thiophene of phthalimide-based donor polymer is a way to make deep HOMO and ultra-wide bandgap donor polymer guest used for highly efficient ternary and quaternary strategies.
- Phthalimide polymer donor,
- Quaternary strategy,
- Polymer solar cell,
- Wide bandgap,
- Fullerene-free
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