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journal article·2018-07-11

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

Chen Xie, Xiaofeng Tang, Marvin Berlinghof, Stefan Langner, Shi Chen, Andreas Späth, Ning Li, Rainer H. Fink, Tobias Unruh, Christoph J. Brabec

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces· Volume 10· Issue 27
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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-C60 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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PolymersNanomaterialsElectronic materials

OpenAlex topics: Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics · Carbon Nanotubes in Composites · Nanowire Synthesis and Applications

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Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Martensstrasse 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

Institute for Crystallography and Structural Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstrasse 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

Physical Chemistry 2 and ICMM Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrsse 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern), Immerwahrstrasse 2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

Funding

Bundesministerium f?r Bildung und Forschung · Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft · Bayerisches Staatsministerium f?r Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst · China Scholarship Council · Freistaat Bayern · Bayerisches Staatsministerium f?r Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz

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