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Thermal Stabilisation of Polymer–Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Morphology for Efficient Photovoltaic Solar Cells

Lionel Derue, Olivier J. Dautel, Aurélien Tournebize, Martin Drees, Hualong Pan, Sébastien Berthumeyrie, Bertrand Pavageau, Éric Cloutet, Sylvain Chambon, Lionel Hirsch,

Advanced Materials · 2014 · 160 citations · 35 references

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Abstract

A novel stable bisazide molecule that can freeze the bulk heterojunction morphology at its optimized layout by specifically bonding to fullerenes is reported. The concept is demonstrated with various polymers: fullerene derivatives systems enable highly thermally stable polymer solar cells.

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