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Cooperative effects of Dopant-Free Hole-Transporting materials and polycarbonate film for sustainable perovskite solar cells

Gao, Wei-Jie
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Xia, Jianxing  
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Xiao, Jing
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June 1, 2022
Chemical Engineering Journal

Dopant-free hole-transporting materials (HTMs) and interface modification are two effective approaches for developing sustainable perovskite solar cells (PSCs). In this work, dopant-free HTM (GW-4) containing an N- ethyl-carbazole with two rotatable vinyl linkages is first synthesized by a green chemical method without any metal catalysts. The GW-4 cost is only 22.43% of the price of commercial 2,2'7,7'-tetrakis[N,N-di(4-methox-yphenyl)amino]-9,9 & PRIME;-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD). In the device fabrication, the concentrations of doped GW-4 (20 mg mL(-1)) and pristine GW-4 solutions (10 mg mL(-1)) are much lower than that of spiro-OMeTAD solution (doped, 72.3 mg mL-1). The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of doped GW-4-based cell is 20.45%, superior to that of spiro-OMeTAD-based cell (19.59%). As the optimal concentration of dopant-free GW-4 is insufficient to completely cover the perovskite layer, a polycarbonate (PC) polymer with carbonyl groups is first introduced to modulate perovskite grain boundaries and improve film-forming property of pristine GW-4. The cell with PC/pristine GW-4 has a slightly higher PCE (17.92%) than the cell with pristine GW-4 (17.66%). Regarding humid stability, after 455 h, the doped GW-4 and spiro-OMeTAD based PSCs retain only 11.71% and 2.27% of the initial efficiency, respectively. In striking contrast, after 850 h, the pristine GW-4 and PC/pristine GW-4 based devices retain 69.74% and 97.53% of the initial efficiency, respectively. This study provides both a new molecular design strategy to develop highly efficient dopant-free HTMs and an ingenious interfacial contrivance to overcome the defects of incomplete coverage of HTM film on perovskite layer and understand the charge dynamics at interfacial layers.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.cej.2022.135197
Web of Science ID

WOS:000779634300002

Author(s)
Gao, Wei-Jie
Xia, Jianxing  
Xiao, Jing
Yu, Hui-Juan
Wang, Dian
Shinohara, Akira
Jia, Chunyang
Kuang, Dai-Bin
Shao, Guang
Date Issued

2022-06-01

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA

Published in
Chemical Engineering Journal
Volume

437

Article Number

135197

Subjects

Engineering, Environmental

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Engineering, Chemical

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Engineering

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hole-transporting material

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dopant-free

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polycarbonate

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stability

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perovskite solar cells

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highly efficient

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low-cost

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sensitizers

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defects

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