NDLI: Precision synthesis of tailor-made polythiophene-based materials and their application to organic solar cells

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Author	Higashihara, Tomoya Ueda, Mitsuru
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Polymer-based solar cells (PSCs) have been promising candidates as renewable energy resources, having multiple advantages of flexible, low-cost and large-area processing for their mass production. Among them, much attention has been paid to fundamental bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) devices using a blend of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C$_{61}$-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) as the active layer. However, there are still significant limitations not only in the low power conversion efficiency (PCE), but also in the device stability. The morphological control of BHJ PSCs is one of the most important issues to improve the device performances. On the other hand, P3HT itself has received much attention in many fields, because it is the best class of balanced high-performance materials as a p-type semiconductor in terms of solubility, chemical stability, charge mobility, and commercial availability. The discovery of the quasi-living Grignard metathesis polymerization (or called catalysttransfer polycondensation) system has made it possible to synthesize a wide variety of chain-end-functional P3HT derivatives, their block copolymers and star-branched polymers. Since the competitive research areas including PSC applications have strongly demanded the accelerated developments of new materials and well-defined morphologies related to polythiophenes, the fundamental studies of P3HT have still been targeted by many research groups. In this review, the controlled synthesis of P3HT, the synthesis of P3HT-based block copolymers, their applications to PSCs, as well as the scope and potential of new thiophene-based materials are described.
Starting Page	257
Ending Page	271
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15985032
Journal	Macromolecular Research
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	20927673
Language	English
Publisher	The Polymer Society of Korea
Publisher Date	2013-02-23
Publisher Place	Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	living polymerization polycondensation polythiophene block copolymers self-assembly organic solar cells Polymer Sciences Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics Physical Chemistry Characterization and Evaluation of Materials Nanochemistry Nanotechnology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Organic Chemistry Materials Chemistry Chemical Engineering Polymers and Plastics

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