Low bandgap conjugated polymers for organic solar cells

Organic solar cells are emerging as a potential solution to address the energy issue in the future. Functional materials that can achieve high performance are the main topics in my thesis. I went briefly to introduce the background and history first, emphasizing on the synthetic principles towards high performance copolymers. My second chapters is about the perturbation effect by introducing terminal chloroaryl in the side chain. A new type of monomer is presented in Chapter III and corresponding polymers are studied. Then we investigated the impact of polymerization conditions on the physical properties using PTB7 as the standard polymer. In the last, we further utilized TID unit to construct acceptor polymers and random copolymer. A PCE value of 7.55% was achieved.