Low band-gap benzodithiophene-thienothiophenecopolymers: the effect of dual two-dimensional substitutions on optoelectronic properties

作     者：Zhulin Liu Jiangman Sun Yongxiang Zhu Peng Liu Lianjie Zhang Junwu Chen Fei Huang Yong Cao 

作者机构：Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and DevicesSouth China University of Technology 

出 版 物：《Science China Chemistry》 (中国科学（化学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第58卷第2期

页      面：267-275页

核心收录：

学科分类：081704[工学-应用化学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 070305[理学-高分子化学与物理] 080501[工学-材料物理与化学] 080502[工学-材料学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0703[理学-化学] 

基　　金：financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21225418 and 51173048) the National Basic Research Program of China(2013CB834705 and 2014CB643505) GDUPS(2013) 

主　　题：conjugated copolymers benzodithiophene thienothiophene dual 2-dimentional substitutions alkyl side-chain length 

摘      要：Two new conjugated copolymers, PBDT-T6-TTF and PBDT-T12-TTF, were derived from a novel 4-fluorobenzoyl thienothi- ophene （TTF）. In addition, two types of benzodithiophene （BDT） units with 2,3-dihexylthienyl （T6） and 2,3-didodecylthienyl （T12） substituents, respectively, were successfully synthesized. The effect of the dual two-dimensional （2D） substitutions of the building blocks upon the optoelectronic properties of the polymers was investigated. Generally, the two polymers exhibited good solubility and broad absorption, showing similar optical band gaps of ~1.53 eV. However, PBDT-T6-TTF with its shorter alkyl chain length possessed a larger extinction coefficient in thin solid film. The highest occupied molecular orbital （HOMO） level of PBDT-T6-TTF was located at -5.38 eV while that of PBDT-T12-TTF was at -5.51 eV. In space charge-limited- current （SCLC） measurement, PBDT-T6-TTF and PBDT-T12-TTF displayed respective hole mobilities of 3.0~10-~ and 1.6x10 5 cm2 V-1 s-l. In polymer solar cells, PBDT-T6-TTF and PBDT-T12-TTF showed respective power conversion efficiencies （PCEs） of 2.86% and 1.67%. When 1,8-diiodooctane （DIO） was used as the solvent additive, the PCE of PBDT-T6-TTF was remarkably elevated to 4.85%, but the use of DIO for the PBDT-T12-TTF-blend film resulted in a lower PCE of 0.91%. Atomic force microscopy （AFM） indicated that the superior efficiency of PBDT-T6-TTF with 3% DIO （v/v） should be related to the better continuous phase separation of the blend film. Nevertheless, the morphology of the PBDT-T12-TTF deteriorated when the 3% DIO （v/v） was added. Our results suggest that the alkyl-chain length on the 2D BDT units play an important role in determining the optoelectronic properties of dual 2D BDT-TT-based polymers.