Citation: Fan Yang, Cheng Li, Gui-tao Feng, Xu-dong Jiang, An-dong Zhang, Wei-wei Li. Bisperylene Bisimide Based Conjugated Polymer as Electron Acceptor for Polymer-Polymer Solar Cellsh[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, ;2017, 35(2): 239-248. doi: 10.1007/s10118-017-1870-4 shu

Bisperylene Bisimide Based Conjugated Polymer as Electron Acceptor for Polymer-Polymer Solar Cellsh

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

Corresponding author: Cheng Li, licheng1987@iccas.ac.cn Wei-wei Li, liweiwei@iccas.ac.cn
Received Date: 18 August 2016
Revised Date: 7 September 2016
Accepted Date: 12 September 2016

Fund Project: the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences XDB12030200the National Natural Science Foundation of China 21574138the National Natural Science Foundation of China 51603209

Perylene bisimide (PBI) unit has been widely used to design conjugated materials, which can be used as electron acceptor in organic solar cells due to its strong electron-deficient ability. In this work, a conjugated polymer based on PBI dimer as monomer was designed, synthesized, and compared to the conjugated polymer containing single PBI as repeating units. The two conjugated polymers were found to have similar molecular weight, absorption spectra and energy levels. Density functional theory calculation revealed that the PBI dimer-based polymer exhibited highly twisted conjugated backbone due to the large dihedral angle between the two PBI units. The PBI-based polymers as electron acceptor were applied into polymer-polymer solar cells, in which PBI dimer-based polymer solar cells were found to show a high short circuit current density (J_sc=11.2 mA·cm^-2) and a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 4.5%. In comparison, the solar cells based on PBI-based polymer acceptor only provided a J_sc of 7.2 mA·cm^-2 and PCE of 2.5%. The significantly enhanced PCE in PBI dimer-based solar cells was attributed to the mixed phase in blended thin films, as revealed by atom force microscopy. This study demonstrates that PBI dimer can be used to design polymer acceptors for high performance polymer-polymer solar cells.
- Polymer solar cells,
- Conjugated polymers,
- Electron acceptor,
- Perylene bisimide
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