• 文献标题:   Photochemical Synthesis of Solution-Processable Graphene Derivatives with Tunable Bandgaps for Organic Solar Cells
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   STYLIANAKIS MM, SYGLETOU M, SAVVA K, KAKAVELAKIS G, KYMAKIS E, STRATAKIS E
  • 作者关键词:   bandgap, graphene, organic solar cell, photochemical synthesi, solutionprocessable
  • 出版物名称:   ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   2195-1071
  • 通讯作者地址:   Technol Educ Inst TEI Crete Heraklion
  • 被引频次:   31
  • DOI:   10.1002/adom.201400450
  • 出版年:   2015

▎ 摘  要

A photochemical route for the facile synthesis of tunable bandgap graphene-based derivatives from graphene oxide (GO) through controlled laser irradiation in liquid phase is presented. The method is facile and fast, yielding these materials within 2 h and with excellent long-term stability. It makes use of photogenerated-solvated electrons that give rise to GO reduction, accompanied by preferential attachment of the desired functional unit, intentionally dispersed into the precursor GO solution. As a proof of concept, laser GO-ethylene-dinitro-benzoyl (LGO-EDNB) was photochemically synthesized and utilized as the electron acceptor material in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells (OSCs) with the poly[N-9'-heptadecanyl-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4',7'-di-2-thienyl-2',1',3'-benzothiadiazole)] as the electron donor. The graphene derivatives are highly dispersible in organic solvents used in OSCs, while their energy levels can be readily tuned upon fine-tuning of the bandgap, which is directly related to the irradiation dose applied during the synthesis process. The utilization of LGO-EDNB with a band gap of 1.7 eV, and a resultant lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level of 4.1 eV, leads to maximum open-circuit voltage of 1.17 V and to power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 2.41%, which is the highest PCE for graphene-based electron acceptors to date.