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Effect of Thermal Treatment on the Performance and Nanostructures in Polymer Solar Cells with PTB7-Th:PC71BM Bulk Heterojunction Layers

  • Lee, Sooyong;Seo, Jooyeok;Jeong, Jaehoon;Lee, Chulyeon;Song, Myeonghun;Kim, Hwajeong;Kim, Youngkyoo
    • Current Photovoltaic Research
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.69-74
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    • 2017
  • Here we report the influence of thermal treatment on the performance of high efficiency polymer solar cells with the bulk heterojunction films of poly[4,8-bis(5-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b'] dithiophene-alt-3-fluorothieno[3,4-b]thiophene-2-carboxylate] (PTB7-Th) and [6,6]-phenyl $C_{71}$ butyric acid methyl ester ($PC_{71}BM$). The crystalline nanostructure of PTB7-Th:$PC_{71}BM$ layers, which were annealed at three different temperatures, was investigated by employing synchrotron radiation grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) technique. Results showed that the device performance was slightly reduced by thermal annealing at $50^{\circ}C$ but became significantly poor by thermal annealing at $100^{\circ}C$. The poor device performance by thermal annealing was attributed to the collapse in the crystalline nanostructure of PTB7-Th in the PTB7-Th:$PC_{71}BM$ layers as evidenced by the GIXD measurements that exhibited huge reduction in the intensity of PTB7-Th (100) peak even at $50^{\circ}C$.

A Spectroscopic Study on Singlet Oxygen Production from Different Reaction Paths Using Solid Inorganic Peroxides as Starting Materials

  • Li, Qingwei;Chen, Fang;Zhao, Weili;Xu, Mingxiu;Fang, Benjie;Zhang, Yuelong;Duo, Liping;Jin, Yuqi;Sang, Fengting
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.28 no.10
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    • pp.1656-1660
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    • 2007
  • Using solid inorganic peroxides (including Li2O2, Na2O2, SrO2 and BaO2) as starting materials, three reaction paths for singlet oxygen (1O2) production were developed and studied. Their 1O2 emission spectra in the near- IR region and visible region from these reaction paths were simultaneously recorded by a near-IR sensitive Optical Multichannel Analyzer and a visible sensitive Optical Spectrum Analyzer, respectively. The comparison of their 1O2 emission spectra indicated that: (1) in term of the efficiency for 1O2 production, the gasliquid- solid reaction path (in which Cl2 or HCl and H2O reacted with the solid inorganic peroxides suspension in CCl4) was prior to the gas-solid reaction path (in which Cl2 or HCl reacted with the solid inorganic peroxides suspension in CCl4), but was inferior to the gas-liquid reaction path (in which Cl2 or HCl reacted with the solid inorganic peroxides solution in H2O or D2O); (2) the alkali metal peroxides (such as Li2O2 and Na2O2) was prior to the alkaline earth metal peroxides (such as SrO2 and BaO2) as the solid reactants, and Cl2 was favorable than HCl as the gas reactant in efficiency for 1O2 production in these reaction paths.

Highly Enantioselective Addition of Diethylzinc to Aldehydes Catalyzed by Novel Chiral tert-Amino Alcohols

  • Zhang, Cong-Hai;Yan, Sheng-Jiao;Pan, Sheng-Qiang;Huang, Rong;Lin, Jun
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.869-873
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    • 2010
  • A series of novel chiral tert-amino alcohols 4a-h derived from enantiomerically pure phenylalanine were synthesized efficiently and used as chiral ligands in the catalytic enantioselective ethylation of aldehydes with diethylzinc (diethylzinc-to-aldehyde addition). The use of 10 mol % of the amino alcohols led to the corresponding sec-alcohols with excellent enantioselectivities (up to 100% ee) and high yields.