Citation: Amjad Islam, Zhi-yang Liu, Rui-xiang Peng, Wei-gang Jiang, Tao Lei, Wang Li, Lei Zhang, Rong-juan Yang, Guan Qian, Zi-yi Ge. Furan-containing Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, ;2017, 35(2): 171-183. doi: 10.1007/s10118-017-1886-9 shu

Furan-containing Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cells

Amjad Islam ^a,b ,
Zhi-yang Liu ^a,b ,
Rui-xiang Peng ^a ,
Wei-gang Jiang ^a ,
Tao Lei ^a ,
Wang Li ^a ,
Lei Zhang ^a ,
Rong-juan Yang ^a ,
Guan Qian ^a ,
Zi-yi Ge ^a,,

a.
Ningbo Key Laboratory of Silicon and Organic Thin Film Optoelectronic Technologies, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China
b.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Corresponding author: Zi-yi Ge, geziyi@nimte.ac.cn
Received Date: 23 July 2016
Revised Date: 19 August 2016
Accepted Date: 21 August 2016

Fund Project: CAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Team and Ningbo Municipal Science and Technology Innovative Research Team 2015B11002the National Natural Science Foundation of China 51273209CAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Team and Ningbo Municipal Science and Technology Innovative Research Team 2016B10005the National Natural Science Foundation of China 51411140244Ningbo Natural Science Foundation 2016A610277Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China LR16B040002the National Natural Science Foundation of China 21574144

Development of organic semiconductors is one of the most intriguing and productive topics in material science and engineering. Many efforts have been made on the synthesis of aromatic building blocks such as benzene, thiophene and pyrrole due to the facile preparation accompanied by the intrinsic environmental stability and relatively efficient properties of the resulting polymers. In the past, furan has been less explored in this field because of its high oxidation potential. Recently, furan has attracted obsession due to its weaker aromaticity, the greater solubilities of furan-containing π-conjugated polymers relative to other benzenoid systems and the accessibility of furan-based starting materials from renewable resources. This review elaborates the advancements of organic photovoltaic polymers containing furan building blocks. The uniqueness and advantages of furan-containing building blocks in semiconducting materials are also discussed.
- Conjugated polymers,
- π-Electron,
- Furan,
- Semiconductors,
- Organic solar cells
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