초록 |
Conjugated polymers in general are unstable when exposed to air, solvent, or thermal treatment, and these challenges limit their practical applications. Herein we have developed a simple, but powerful approach to achieve solvent-resistant and thermally stable organic electronic devices with a remarkably improved air-stability, by introducing a crosslinkable group into a conjugated polymer. Photo-crosslinking of crosslinkable P3HT dramatically improves the solvent resistance of the active layer without disrupting the molecular ordering and charge transport. Furthermore, the bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaics (BHJ OPVs) containing crosslinkable P3HT show an average efficiency higher than 3.3% after 40 h annealing at an elevated temperature of 150°C. This enhanced stability is due to an in-situ compatibilizer that forms at the P3HT/PCBM interface and suppresses macrophase separation. |