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Flexible, highly efficient all-polymer solar cells

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  • Taesu Kim

    (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    KI for the NanoCentury, KAIST)

  • Jae-Han Kim

    (KI for the NanoCentury, KAIST
    KAIST)

  • Tae Eui Kang

    (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    KI for the NanoCentury, KAIST)

  • Changyeon Lee

    (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    KI for the NanoCentury, KAIST)

  • Hyunbum Kang

    (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    KI for the NanoCentury, KAIST)

  • Minkwan Shin

    (POSTECH)

  • Cheng Wang

    (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Biwu Ma

    (Florida State University)

  • Unyong Jeong

    (POSTECH)

  • Taek-Soo Kim

    (KI for the NanoCentury, KAIST
    KAIST)

  • Bumjoon J. Kim

    (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
    KI for the NanoCentury, KAIST)

Abstract

All-polymer solar cells have shown great potential as flexible and portable power generators. These devices should offer good mechanical endurance with high power-conversion efficiency for viability in commercial applications. In this work, we develop highly efficient and mechanically robust all-polymer solar cells that are based on the PBDTTTPD polymer donor and the P(NDI2HD-T) polymer acceptor. These systems exhibit high power-conversion efficiency of 6.64%. Also, the proposed all-polymer solar cells have even better performance than the control polymer-fullerene devices with phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) as the electron acceptor (6.12%). More importantly, our all-polymer solar cells exhibit dramatically enhanced strength and flexibility compared with polymer/PCBM devices, with 60- and 470-fold improvements in elongation at break and toughness, respectively. The superior mechanical properties of all-polymer solar cells afford greater tolerance to severe deformations than conventional polymer-fullerene solar cells, making them much better candidates for applications in flexible and portable devices.

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  • Taesu Kim & Jae-Han Kim & Tae Eui Kang & Changyeon Lee & Hyunbum Kang & Minkwan Shin & Cheng Wang & Biwu Ma & Unyong Jeong & Taek-Soo Kim & Bumjoon J. Kim, 2015. "Flexible, highly efficient all-polymer solar cells," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 6(1), pages 1-7, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:6:y:2015:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms9547
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9547
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    1. Alessandro Cannavale & Francesco Martellotta & Francesco Fiorito & Ubaldo Ayr, 2020. "The Challenge for Building Integration of Highly Transparent Photovoltaics and Photoelectrochromic Devices," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-24, April.
    2. Popoola, Idris K. & Gondal, Mohammed A. & Qahtan, Talal F., 2018. "Recent progress in flexible perovskite solar cells: Materials, mechanical tolerance and stability," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 82(P3), pages 3127-3151.

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