Nanostructures of chemically modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes and poly(3-hexylthiophene) to improve photophysic/photovoltaic features

Afsaneh Hadi; Mohammad Hossein Hekmatshoar; Farhang Abbasi; Samira Agbolaghi

doi:10.1007/s42823-020-00155-9

Nanostructures of chemically modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes and poly(3-hexylthiophene) to improve photophysic/photovoltaic features

Carbon Letters
Abbr : Carbon Lett.
2021, 31(1), pp.107-115
DOI : 10.1007/s42823-020-00155-9
Publisher : Korean Carbon Society
Research Area : Natural Science > Natural Science General > Other Natural Sciences General
Received : March 23, 2020
Accepted : May 19, 2020
Published : February 1, 2021

Afsaneh Hadi ¹, Mohammad Hossein Hekmatshoar ¹, Farhang Abbasi ², Samira Agbolaghi ³

¹Faculty of Sciences, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran
²Faculty of Polymer Engineering, Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran
³Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University

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Multi-walled carbon nanotube/poly(3-hexylthiophene) (CNT/P3HT) and CNT-graft-poly(3-dodecylthiophene) (PDDT)/P3HT nanohybrids were applied in active layers to study the effects of these nanostructures on the polymer solar cell (PSC) performance. The charge-carrier dynamics and photophysics were studied in the binary and ternary systems based on P3HT, pre-developed nanostructures and/or phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM) through the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and morphological analyses. The weaker bimolecular recombination in the photoactive layer, consisting of CNT-graft-PDDT/P3HT nanostructures, was confirmed by short-circuit current (Jsc) and open-circuit voltage (Voc) measurements as a function of light intensity. PSC composed of P3HT:PC71BM:CNT-graft-PDDT/P3HT PSC exhibited the highest PCE of 4.18% with significantly increased Jsc and Voc.

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Poly(3-dodecylthiophene), Carbon nanotube, Organic solar cell, Charge-carrier dynamics, Photophysics

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