Robot-Based High-Throughput Engineering of Alcoholic Polymer: Fullerene Nanoparticle Inks for an Eco-Friendly Processing of Organic Solar Cells

Xie C, Tang X, Berlinghof M, Langner S, Chen S, Späth A, Li N, Fink R, Unruh T, Brabec C (2018)


Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2018

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Publisher: AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Book Volume: 10

Pages Range: 23225-23234

Journal Issue: 27

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b03621

Abstract

Development of high-quality organic nanoparticle inks is a significant scientific challenge for the industrial production of solution processed organic photovoltaics (OPVs) with eco-friendly processing methods. In this work, we demonstrate a novel, robot-based, high throughput procedure performing automatic poly(3-hexylthio-phene-2,5-diyl) and indene-C-60 bisadduct nanoparticle ink synthesis in nontoxic alcohols. A novel methodology to prepare particle dispersions for fully functional OPVs by manipulating the particle size and solvent system was studied in detail. The ethanol dispersion with a particle diameter of around 80-100 nm exhibits reduced degradation, yielding a power conversion efficiency of 4.52%, which is the highest performance reported so far for water/alcohol-processed OPV devices. By successfully deploying the high-throughput robot-based approach for an organic nanoparticle ink preparation, we believe that the findings demonstrated in this work will trigger more research interest and effort on eco-friendly industrial production of OPVs.

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APA:

Xie, C., Tang, X., Berlinghof, M., Langner, S., Chen, S., Späth, A.,... Brabec, C. (2018). Robot-Based High-Throughput Engineering of Alcoholic Polymer: Fullerene Nanoparticle Inks for an Eco-Friendly Processing of Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10(27), 23225-23234. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b03621

MLA:

Xie, Chen, et al. "Robot-Based High-Throughput Engineering of Alcoholic Polymer: Fullerene Nanoparticle Inks for an Eco-Friendly Processing of Organic Solar Cells." ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 10.27 (2018): 23225-23234.

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