Insulator Polymer Matrix Construction on All-Small-Molecule Photoactive Blend Towards Extrapolated 15000 Hour T80 Stable DevicesShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Advanced Materials, ISSN 0935-9648, E-ISSN 1521-4095, Vol. 36, no 35, article id 2405005Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
To boost the stability of all-small-molecule (ASM) organic photovoltaic (OPV) blends, an insulator polymer called styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS) as morphology stabilizer is applied into the host system of small molecules BM-ClEH:BO-4Cl. Minor addition of SEBS (1 mg/ml in host solution) provides a significantly enhanced T80 value of 15000 hours (extrapolated), surpassing doping-free (0 mg/ml) and heavy doping (10 mg/ml) counterparts (900 hours, 30 hours). The material reproducibility and cost-effectiveness of the active layer will not be affected by this industrially available polymer, where the power conversion efficiency (PCE) can be well maintained at 15.02%, which is still a decent value for non-halogen solvent-treated ASM OPV. Morphological and photophysical characterizations clearly demonstrate SEBS's pivotal effect on suppressing the degradation of donor molecules and blend film's crystallization/aggregation reorganization, which protects the exciton dynamics effectively. This work pays meaningful attention to the ASM system stability, performs a smart strategy to suppress the film morphology degradation, and releases a comprehensive understanding of the mechanism of device performance reduction.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wiley , 2024. Vol. 36, no 35, article id 2405005
Keywords [en]
additive, all-small-molecule, morphology, organic photovoltaic, stability
National Category
Materials Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-366648DOI: 10.1002/adma.202405005ISI: 001271269700001PubMedID: 38992998Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85198044030OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-366648DiVA, id: diva2:1982795
Note
QC 20250708
2025-07-082025-07-082025-07-08Bibliographically approved