Enhancing the Thermal Stability of Polythiophene:Fullerene Solar Cells by Decreasing Effective Polymer Regioregularity
Journal of the American Chemical Society2006Vol. 128(43), pp. 13988–13989
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Abstract
Regioregularity has been shown to be an important aspect for the properties of poly(3-hexylthiophene) both in the pristine material and in bulk heterojunction photovoltaics with the fullerene derivative PCBM. Here we present a straightforward method to adjust the effective regioregularity of poly(3-hexylthiophene) by introducing 3,4-dihexylthiophene into the polymer chain. By investigating bulk heterojunction morphology and photovoltaic performance upon annealing, we observe that polythiophene with 91% regioregularity maintains equivalent electronic properties but forms a more thermally stable interpenetrating network with PCBM than polythiophene with regioregularity >96%.
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