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06 Jun 04:29

[ASAP] Rational Design of a Narrow-Bandgap Conjugated Polymer Using the Quinoidal Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene-Based Building Block for Organic Field-Effect Transistor Applications

by Jun Huang†, Shuo Lu‡, Ping-An Chen§, Kai Wang†, Yuanyuan Hu§, Yong Liang*‡, Ming Wang*†, and Elsa Reichmanis?

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Macromolecules
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00370
30 Dec 07:21

A Difluorobenzoxadiazole Building Block for Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

by Jingbo Zhao, Yunke Li, Adrian Hunt, Jianquan Zhang, Huatong Yao, Zhengke Li, Jie Zhang, Fei Huang, Harald Ade, He Yan
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A difluorobenzoxadiazole building block is synthesized and utilized to construct a conjugated polymer leading to high-performance thick-film polymer solar cells with a VOC of 0.88 V and a power conversion efficiency of 9.4%. This new building block can be used in many possible polymer structures for various organic electro­nic applications.