Halogen-free Solvents for Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

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Organic solar cells are an exciting, clean energy generating technology offering low-cost, scalable fabrication routes. New non-fullerene acceptors such as ITIC produce highly efficient devices but they are typically achieved using halogenated solvents which are harmful to human health and the environment. Using environmentally friendly, halogen-free solvents such as o-xylene and CS2:acetone not only mitigates these problems but also increases the ease of scalability and industrialisation. In Sheffield, we have produced halogen-free devices with efficiencies comparable to halogenated systems. Using SANS, we will probe the bulk morphology of a range of halogen-free blend thin-films. These results, combined with other characterisation techniques will allow us to develop a thorough understanding of the structure-property-function relationships which is key to improving device performance.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920285-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/108678417
Provenance
Creator Miss Emma Spooner; Dr Stephanie Burg; Mr Derick Liew; Professor David Lidzey; Dr Andrew Parnell; Dr Robert Dalgliesh; Dr Rachel Kilbride; Professor Richard Jones
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-11-28T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-12-02T05:32:12Z