Abstract
In order to accelerate the transfer of organic solar cells (OSCs) from lab to fab, this work develops a synergetic strategy by integrating low-cost material, green solvent, bio-based additive and low-temperature post-treatment to sustainably fabricate OSCs. The donor polymer PTQ10 composing of simple building blocks, accompanied by the acceptor L8-BO, is dissolved in the green solvent tetrahydrofuran, wherein a bio-based cinnamonitrile is firstly used as solvent additive. Moreover, fluorous solvent soaking (FSS) is employed as post-treatment to replace the high-temperature and time-consuming thermal annealing. Systematic investigations are performed to unravel the mechanism of the device engineering developed in this work. Differing from the one-way movement of additive, the fluorous solvent can penetrate into and come out the film in cycles. Meanwhile, some L8-BO is selectively dissolved and brought out by the fluorous solvent, so this partial L8-BO bears the function as solid additive to optimize the morphology. As a result, the device achieves a remarkable power conversion efficiency of 17.11%, among the best efficiencies of OSCs prepared by non-halogenated non-aromatic solvents. In addition, the excellent universality ensures this strategy is also effective in the thick-film OSCs.
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