New low bandgap dithienylbenzothiadiazole vinylene based copolymers: Synthesis and photovoltaic properties

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 391-398

  Liu, Bo ^a   Najari, Ahmed ^b   Pan, Chunyue ^a   Leclerc, Mario ^b   Xiao, Dequan ^c   Zou, Yingping ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymers; Heck coupling reaction; Low bandgap; Polymer solar cells; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION BAND; BAND GAPS; BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; CROSS-COUPLINGS; DSC AND TGA; ELECTRON-RICH; HECK COUPLING REACTION; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; LOW BANDGAP; LOW BANDGAP POLYMERS; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; O-DICHLOROBENZENE; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; THERMAL STABILITY;

ANILINE; BENZENE; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPOLYMERIZATION; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ENERGY GAP; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTICAL BAND GAPS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 77249085189     PISSN: 10221336     EISSN: 15213927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/marc.200900654     Document Type: Article

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