Zhang, Bo published the artcile3,4-Dicyanothiophene-a Versatile Building Block for Efficient Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells, Quality Control of 52431-30-8, the publication is Advanced Energy Materials (2020), 10(12), 1904247, database is CAplus.
In this contribution, a versatile building block, 3,4-dicyanothiophene (DCT), which possesses structural simplicity and synthetic accessibility for constructing high-performance, low-cost, wide-bandgap conjugated polymers for use as donors in polymer solar cells (PSCs), is reported. A prototype polymer, PB3TCN-C66, and its cyano-free analog polymer PB3T-C66, are synthesized to evaluate the potential of using DCT in nonfullerene PSCs. A stronger aggregation property in solution, higher thermal transition temperatures with higher enthalpies, a larger dipole moment, higher relative dielec. constant, and more linear conformation are exhibited by PB3TCN-C66. Solar cells employing IT-4F as the electron acceptor offer power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 11.2% and 2.3% for PB3TCN-C66 and PB3T-C66, resp. Morphol. characterizations reveal that the PB3TCN-C66:IT-4F blend exhibits better π-π paracrystallinity, a contracted domain size, and higher phase purity, consistent with its higher mol. interaction parameter, derived from thermodn. calculations Moreover, PB3TCN-C66 offers a higher open-circuit voltage and reduced energy loss than most state-of-the-art wide-bandgap polymers, without the need of addnl. electron-withdrawing substituents. Two addnl. polymers derived from DCT also demonstrate promising performance with a higher PCE of 13.4% being achieved. Thus, DCT represents a versatile and promising building block for constructing high-performance, low-cost, conjugated polymers for application in PSCs.
Advanced Energy Materials published new progress about 52431-30-8. 52431-30-8 belongs to bromides-buliding-blocks, auxiliary class Liquid Crystal &OLED Materials, name is 2,5-Dibromo-3,4-dinitrothiophene, and the molecular formula is C12H16N2O2, Quality Control of 52431-30-8.
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