Incorporation of furan into low band-gap polymers for efficient solar cells

Claire H. Woo; Pierre Beaujuge; Thomas W. Holcombe; Olivia P. Lee; Jean Frechet

doi:10.1021/ja108115y

Incorporation of furan into low band-gap polymers for efficient solar cells

Claire H. Woo, Pierre Beaujuge, Thomas W. Holcombe, Olivia P. Lee, Jean Frechet

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Abstract

The design, synthesis, and characterization of the first examples of furan-containing low band-gap polymers, PDPP2FT and PDPP3F, with substantial power conversion efficiencies in organic solar cells are reported. Inserting furan moieties in the backbone of the conjugated polymers enables the use of relatively small solubilizing side chains because of the significant contribution of the furan rings to overall polymer solubility in common organic solvents. Bulk heterojunction solar cells fabricated from furan-containing polymers and PC₇₁BM as the acceptor showed power conversion efficiencies reaching 5.0%.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	15547-15549
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Volume	132
Issue number	44
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ja108115y
State	Published - Nov 10 2010

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Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, and by the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (Award No. KUS-C1-015-21), supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). C.H.W. and T.W.H. thank the National Science Foundation for graduate research fellowships.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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Biochemistry
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Colloid and Surface Chemistry

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