Improving Photovoltaic Properties of P3HT:IC(60)BA through the Incorporation of Small Molecules

We investigated the role of a functional solid additive, 2,3-dihydroxypyridine (DHP), in influencing the optoelectronic, morphological, structural and photovoltaic properties of bulk-heterojunction-based polymer solar cells (BHJ PSCs) fabricated using poly(3-hexylthiophene): indene-C(60) bisadduct (...

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Autores principales: Xu, Binrui, Sai-Anand, Gopalan, Gopalan, Anantha-Iyengar, Qiao, Qiquan, Kang, Shin-Won
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Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30966157
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10020121
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author Xu, Binrui
Sai-Anand, Gopalan
Gopalan, Anantha-Iyengar
Qiao, Qiquan
Kang, Shin-Won
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description We investigated the role of a functional solid additive, 2,3-dihydroxypyridine (DHP), in influencing the optoelectronic, morphological, structural and photovoltaic properties of bulk-heterojunction-based polymer solar cells (BHJ PSCs) fabricated using poly(3-hexylthiophene): indene-C(60) bisadduct (P3HT:IC(60)BA) photoactive medium. A dramatic increase in the power conversion efficiency (~20%) was witnessed for the BHJ PSCs treated with DHP compared to the pristine devices. A plausible explanation describing the alignment of pyridine moieties of DHP with the indene side groups of IC(60)BA is presented with a view to improving the performance of the BHJ PSCs via improved crystalline order and hydrophobicity changes.
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spelling pubmed-64151642019-04-02 Improving Photovoltaic Properties of P3HT:IC(60)BA through the Incorporation of Small Molecules Xu, Binrui Sai-Anand, Gopalan Gopalan, Anantha-Iyengar Qiao, Qiquan Kang, Shin-Won Polymers (Basel) Article We investigated the role of a functional solid additive, 2,3-dihydroxypyridine (DHP), in influencing the optoelectronic, morphological, structural and photovoltaic properties of bulk-heterojunction-based polymer solar cells (BHJ PSCs) fabricated using poly(3-hexylthiophene): indene-C(60) bisadduct (P3HT:IC(60)BA) photoactive medium. A dramatic increase in the power conversion efficiency (~20%) was witnessed for the BHJ PSCs treated with DHP compared to the pristine devices. A plausible explanation describing the alignment of pyridine moieties of DHP with the indene side groups of IC(60)BA is presented with a view to improving the performance of the BHJ PSCs via improved crystalline order and hydrophobicity changes. MDPI 2018-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6415164/ /pubmed/30966157 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10020121 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Improving Photovoltaic Properties of P3HT:IC(60)BA through the Incorporation of Small Molecules
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title_full Improving Photovoltaic Properties of P3HT:IC(60)BA through the Incorporation of Small Molecules
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title_full_unstemmed Improving Photovoltaic Properties of P3HT:IC(60)BA through the Incorporation of Small Molecules
title_short Improving Photovoltaic Properties of P3HT:IC(60)BA through the Incorporation of Small Molecules
title_sort improving photovoltaic properties of p3ht:ic(60)ba through the incorporation of small molecules
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415164/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30966157
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10020121
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