Side‐Chain Asymmetry in Quinoxaline Copolymer Donors Enables Optimal Morphology and Improved Charge Dynamics for High‐Efficiency Organic Solar Cells
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) have attracted increasing attention owing to their superior mechanical robustness, morphological stability, and solution-processability. However, intricate intermolecular interactions hinder the precise regulation of donor-acceptor miscibility and phase separation, thereby restricting the formation of ideal donor-acceptor interpenetrating networks and favorable charge dynamics. Herein, an asymmetric side-chain strategy is developed for a quinoxaline-based polymer donor (PBAQ6) to precisely modulate donor and acceptor miscibility. Systematic studies demonstrate that the side-chain structure could effectively modulate the film morphology features and charge dynamics of the active layer. Notably, the PBAQ6 polymer with an asymmetric side-chain configuration achieves reasonable donor-acceptor miscibility with the PYF-T-o polymer acceptor. Consequently, the PBAQ6:PYF-T-o-based binary all-PSCs deliver a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 18.35%, and a further enhanced PCE of 19.52% is achieved for the ternary all-PSCs with a small amount of PBQ12 as a second polymer donor, which ranks among the best values reported so far. Overall, this work demonstrates that, within the investigated quinoxaline-based polymer-donor platform, asymmetric side-chain engineering can concurrently regulate donor-acceptor miscibility, active-layer morphology, and bulk charge dynamics, thereby providing a useful molecular-design principle for the development of high-performance all-polymer solar cells.
Authors
- Shirong Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6438-1082)
- Beibei Qiu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5288-5152)
- 成于乐
- Jianqi Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3549-1482)
- Lei Meng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2775-362X)
- Gang Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8399-7771)
- Yongfang Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2565-2748)
- Shucheng Qin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2506-4280)
- Ke Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4315-8305)
- Wenbin Lai
- Jing Guo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8868-0369)
- Can Zhu
- Hong Zhang
- Jinyuan Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4503-8028)
Institutions
- Zhejiang Normal University (CN)
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)
- Hebei University of Technology (CN)
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (CN)
- National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (CN)
- Hebei University (CN)
- Taizhou University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Science
- Published
- 2026-09-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.77555
- Primary Topic
- Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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