• Nano-Micro Letters
  • Vol. 15, Issue 1, 241 (2023)
Hairui Bai1, Ruijie Ma4、*, Wenyan Su5、9、**, Top Archie Dela Peña6、7, Tengfei Li1, Lingxiao Tang1, Jie Yang8, Bin Hu10, Yilin Wang1, Zhaozhao Bi1, Yueling Su9, Qi Wei6, Qiang Wu1、***, Yuwei Duan9, Yuxiang Li5, Jiaying Wu7, Zicheng Ding9, Xunfan Liao3, Yinjuan Huang1, Chao Gao11, Guanghao Lu10, Mingjie Li6, Weiguo Zhu2, Gang Li4、****, Qunping Fan1、2、3、*****, and Wei Ma1、******
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, People’s Republic of China
  • 2Jiangsu Engineering Research Center of Light-Electricity-Heat Energy-Converting Materials and Applications, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, People’s Republic of China
  • 3Key Lab of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education/National Engineering Research Center for Carbohydrate Synthesis, Jiangxi Normal University, 99 Ziyang Avenue, Nanchang 330022, People’s Republic of China
  • 4Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, 999077 Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
  • 5School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, People’s Republic of China
  • 6Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, 999077 Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
  • 7Advanced Materials Thrust, Function Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Nansha Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
  • 8School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, People’s Republic of China
  • 9Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Advanced Energy Devices, Shaanxi Engineering Lab for Advanced Energy Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, People’s Republic of China
  • 10Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710054, People’s Republic of China
  • 11Xi’an Key Laboratory of Liquid Crystal and Organic Photovoltaic Materials, State Key Laboratory of Fluorine & Nitrogen Chemicals, Xi’an Modern Chemistry Research Institute, Xi’an 710065, People’s Republic of China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s40820-023-01208-0 Cite this Article
    Hairui Bai, Ruijie Ma, Wenyan Su, Top Archie Dela Peña, Tengfei Li, Lingxiao Tang, Jie Yang, Bin Hu, Yilin Wang, Zhaozhao Bi, Yueling Su, Qi Wei, Qiang Wu, Yuwei Duan, Yuxiang Li, Jiaying Wu, Zicheng Ding, Xunfan Liao, Yinjuan Huang, Chao Gao, Guanghao Lu, Mingjie Li, Weiguo Zhu, Gang Li, Qunping Fan, Wei Ma. Green-Solvent Processed Blade-Coating Organic Solar Cells with an Efficiency Approaching 19% Enabled by Alkyl-Tailored Acceptors[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2023, 15(1): 241 Copy Citation Text show less

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    Power-conversion-efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) in laboratory, normally processed by spin-coating technology with toxic halogenated solvents, have reached over 19%. However, there is usually a marked PCE drop when the blade-coating and/or green-solvents toward large-scale printing are used instead, which hampers the practical development of OSCs. Here, a new series of N-alkyl-tailored small molecule acceptors named YR-SeNF with a same molecular main backbone are developed by combining selenium-fused central-core and naphthalene-fused end-group. Thanks to the N-alkyl engineering, NIR-absorbing YR-SeNF series show different crystallinity, packing patterns, and miscibility with polymeric donor. The studies exhibit that the molecular packing, crystallinity, and vertical distribution of active layer morphologies are well optimized by introducing newly designed guest acceptor associated with tailored N-alkyl chains, providing the improved charge transfer dynamics and stability for the PM6:L8-BO:YR-SeNF-based OSCs. As a result, a record-high PCE approaching 19% is achieved in the blade-coating OSCs fabricated from a green-solvent o-xylene with high-boiling point. Notably, ternary OSCs offer robust operating stability under maximum-power-point tracking and well-keep > 80% of the initial PCEs for even over 400 h. Our alkyl-tailored guest acceptor strategy provides a unique approach to develop green-solvent and blade-coating processed high-efficiency and operating stable OSCs, which paves a way for industrial development.
    Hairui Bai, Ruijie Ma, Wenyan Su, Top Archie Dela Peña, Tengfei Li, Lingxiao Tang, Jie Yang, Bin Hu, Yilin Wang, Zhaozhao Bi, Yueling Su, Qi Wei, Qiang Wu, Yuwei Duan, Yuxiang Li, Jiaying Wu, Zicheng Ding, Xunfan Liao, Yinjuan Huang, Chao Gao, Guanghao Lu, Mingjie Li, Weiguo Zhu, Gang Li, Qunping Fan, Wei Ma. Green-Solvent Processed Blade-Coating Organic Solar Cells with an Efficiency Approaching 19% Enabled by Alkyl-Tailored Acceptors[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2023, 15(1): 241
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