Bright future of polymerizing small-molecule acceptors in realizing high performance all-polymer solar cells

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Front. Chem. Sci. Eng.

2022, Vol. 16

Issue (10) : 1526-1529 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11705-022-2161-3

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Bright future of polymerizing small-molecule acceptors in realizing high performance all-polymer solar cells

Qi Chen¹, Cen Zhang¹, Lingwei Xue^1,², Zhi-Guo Zhang¹(

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¹. State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
². School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Pingdingshan University, Pingdingshan 467000, China

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Tongcan Cui and Yizhe Hou contributed equally to this work.

Online First Date: 09 May 2022 Issue Date: 17 October 2022

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Qi Chen,Cen Zhang,Lingwei Xue, et al. Bright future of polymerizing small-molecule acceptors in realizing high performance all-polymer solar cells[J]. Front. Chem. Sci. Eng., 2022, 16(10): 1526-1529.

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Fig.1 (a) Device structure of all-PSCs; (b) schematic illustration of the strategy of PSMA along with (c–e) the building blocks used to construct PSMAs; (f) typical polymer donors that working well with PSMAs.

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