Low band gap benzothiophene-thienothiophene copolymers with conjugated alkylthiothieyl and alkoxycarbonyl cyanovinyl side chains for photovoltaic applications

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Apr 14;51(29):6290-2. doi: 10.1039/c4cc10062j.

Abstract

Alkylthiothieyl substituted benzothiophene (BDT) and alkoxycarbonyl cyanovinyl modified thienothiophene (TT) were copolymerized to obtain a new two dimensional low band gap polymer PBDTTT-S-CN, which exhibited a promising efficiency of 7.0% in organic solar cells.