Industrial Kraft Lignin Based Binary Cathode Interface Layer Enables Enhanced Stability in High Efficiency Organic Solar CellsShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Advanced Materials, ISSN 0935-9648, E-ISSN 1521-4095, Vol. 36, no 9, article id 2307646Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Herein, a binary cathode interface layer (CIL) strategy based on the industrial solvent fractionated LignoBoost kraft lignin (KL) is adopted for fabrication of organic solar cells (OSCs). The uniformly distributed phenol moieties in KL enable it to easily form hydrogen bonds with commonly used CIL materials, i.e., bathocuproine (BCP) and PFN-Br, resulting in binary CILs with tunable work function (WF). This work shows that the binary CILs work well in OSCs with large KL ratio compatibility, exhibiting equivalent or even higher efficiency to the traditional CILs in state of art OSCs. In addition, the combination of KL and BCP significantly enhanced OSC stability, owing to KL blocking the reaction between BCP and nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs). This work provides a simple and effective way to achieve high-efficient OSCs with better stability and sustainability by using wood-based materials. This work introduces industrial solvent fractionated LignoBoost kraft lignin (KL) in highly efficient organic solar cells (OSCs) by binary cathode interface layer (CIL) strategy, which can significantly improve the stability of both binary and ternary photoactive layer (PAL) OSC, owing to the passivation of diffusion and reaction between bathocuproine (BCP) and nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs). The results combine sustainable wood-based material with classic interface materials in advance NFA-OSCs.image
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH , 2024. Vol. 36, no 9, article id 2307646
Keywords [en]
bathocuproine; binary cathode interface layer; lignin; organic solar cell; stability
National Category
Polymer Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-199987DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307646ISI: 001126669100001PubMedID: 37812198OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-199987DiVA, id: diva2:1825951
Note
Funding Agencies|Stiftelsen fr Miljstrategisk Forskning; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) through the Wallenberg Wood Science Center; Swedish Energy Agency; Swedish Research Council; STINT grant; Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linkoping University [2009 00971]; [45411-1]; [2016-05498]; [2016-05990]; [2020-04538]; [2018-06048]; [CH2017-7163]
2024-01-102024-01-102024-10-18Bibliographically approved