S. Tan, M. Sarjadi
Sep 1, 2017
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Polymer Science, Series B
Abstract
This review summarized the photovoltaic performance and polymeric properties of the modified poly[N-9′-heptadecanyl-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4′,7′-di-2-thienyl-2′,1′,3′-benzothiadiazole)] in the 21st century. These modifications comprised fluorination, substitution, ladderization, spacer alteration, donoracceptor rearrangement, and etcetera. Besides that, this paper also sorted out the copolymers which are tailored from carbazole donor and isoindigo acceptor. Meanwhile, the copolymers that consist of both benzothiadiazole and isoindigo but not carbazole were also put together in this paper for better comparison purpose. The summary of all these modifications will be able to provide a better insight for the future molecular designation of the copolymeric backbones in the application of polymeric solar cells.