Supercapacitors based on two-dimensional MXene(Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(z))have shown extraordinary performance in ultrathin electrodes with low mass loading,but usually there is a significant reduction in high-rate performance ...Supercapacitors based on two-dimensional MXene(Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(z))have shown extraordinary performance in ultrathin electrodes with low mass loading,but usually there is a significant reduction in high-rate performance as the thickness increases,caused by increasing ion diffusion limitation.Further limitations include restacking of the nanosheets,which makes it challenging to realize the full potential of these electrode materials.Herein,we demonstrate the design of a vertically aligned MXene hydrogel composite,achieved by thermal-assisted self-assembled gelation,for high-rate energy storage.The highly interconnected MXene network in the hydrogel architecture provides very good electron transport properties,and its vertical ion channel structure facilitates rapid ion transport.The resulting hydrogel electrode show excellent performance in both aqueous and organic electrolytes with respect to high capacitance,stability,and high-rate capability for up to 300μm thick electrodes,which represents a significant step toward practical applications.展开更多
All-polymer solar cells(all-PSCs)possess attractive merits including superior thermal stability and mechanical flexibility for large-area roll-to-roll processing.Introducing flexible conjugation-break spacers(FCBSs)in...All-polymer solar cells(all-PSCs)possess attractive merits including superior thermal stability and mechanical flexibility for large-area roll-to-roll processing.Introducing flexible conjugation-break spacers(FCBSs)into backbones of polymer donor(P_(D))or polymer acceptor(P_(A))has been demonstrated as an efficient approach to enhance both the photovoltaic(PV)and mechanical properties of the all-PSCs.However,length dependency of FCBS on certain all-PSC related properties has not been systematically explored.In this regard,we report a series of new non-conjugated P_(A)s by incorporating FCBS with various lengths(2,4,and 8 carbon atoms in thioalkyl segments).Unlike com-mon studies on so-called side-chain engineering,where longer side chains would lead to better solubility of those resulting polymers,in this work,we observe that the solubilities and the resulting photovoltaic/mechanical properties are optimized by a proper FCBS length(i.e.,C2)in P_(A) named PYTS-C2.Its all-PSC achieves a high efficiency of 11.37%,and excellent mechanical robustness with a crack onset strain of 12.39%,significantly superior to those of the other P_(A)s.These results firstly demonstrate the effects of FCBS lengths on the PV performance and mechanical properties of the all-PSCs,providing an effective strategy to fine-tune the structures of P_(A)s for highly efficient and mechanically robust PSCs.展开更多
Organic solar cell(OSC)has attracted great interests due to its potential applications[1-9].To date,18%power conversion efficiency(PCE)has been achieved in single-junction OSC[10−13],indicating the feasibility of comm...Organic solar cell(OSC)has attracted great interests due to its potential applications[1-9].To date,18%power conversion efficiency(PCE)has been achieved in single-junction OSC[10−13],indicating the feasibility of commercialization.This photovoltaic technology currently faces the performance gap between laboratory cells and large-area modules.展开更多
We developed novel hybrid ligands to passivate Pb S colloidal quantum dots(CQDs),and two kinds of solar cells based on as-synthesized CQDs were fabricated to verify the passivation effects of the ligands.It was found ...We developed novel hybrid ligands to passivate Pb S colloidal quantum dots(CQDs),and two kinds of solar cells based on as-synthesized CQDs were fabricated to verify the passivation effects of the ligands.It was found that the ligands strongly affected the optical and electrical properties of CQDs,and the performances of solar cells were enhanced strongly.The optimized hybrid ligands,oleic amine/octyl-phosphine acid/Cd Cl2improved power conversion efficiency(PCE)to much higher of 3.72%for Schottky diode cell and 5.04%for p–n junction cell.These results may be beneficial to design passivation strategy for low-cost and high-performance CQDs solar cells.展开更多
Despite the rapid advances of red and green perovskite light-emitting diodes(Pe LEDs),achieving high brightness with high external quantum efficiency(EQE)remains a challenge for the pure-blue Pe LEDs,which greatly hin...Despite the rapid advances of red and green perovskite light-emitting diodes(Pe LEDs),achieving high brightness with high external quantum efficiency(EQE)remains a challenge for the pure-blue Pe LEDs,which greatly hinders their practical applications,such as white-light illumination and in optical communication as a high-speed and low-loss light source.Herein,we report a high-performance pure-blue Pe LED based on mixed-halide quasi-2D perovskites incorporated with a zwitterionic molecule of 3-(benzyldimethylammonio)propanesulfonate(3-BAS).Experimental and density functional theory analysis reveals that 3-BAS can simultaneously eliminate non-radiative recombination loss,suppress halide migration,and regulate phase distribution for smoothing energy transfer in the mixed-halide quasi-2D perovskites,leading to the final perovskites with high photoluminescence quantum yield and robust spectrum stability.Thus,the highperformance pure-blue Pe LED with a recorded brightness with 1806 cd m-2and a relative higher EQE of 9.25%is achieved,which is successfully demonstrated in a visible light communication system for voice signal transmission.We pave the way for achieving highly efficient pure-blue Pe LEDs with great application potential in future optical communication networks.展开更多
The non-fully conjugated polymer as a new class of acceptor materials has shown some advantages over its small molecular counterpart when used in photoactive layers for all-polymer solar cells(all-PSCs),despite a low ...The non-fully conjugated polymer as a new class of acceptor materials has shown some advantages over its small molecular counterpart when used in photoactive layers for all-polymer solar cells(all-PSCs),despite a low power conversion efficiency(PCE)caused by its narrow absorption spectra.Herein,a novel non-fully conjugated polymer acceptor PFY-2TS with a low bandgap of~1.40 eV was developed,via polymerizing a largeπ-fused small molecule acceptor(SMA)building block(namely YBO)with a non-conjugated thioalkyl linkage.Compared with its precursor YBO,PFY-2TS retains a similar low bandgap but a higher LUMO level.Moreover,compared with the structural analog of YBO-based fully conjugated polymer acceptor PFY-DTC,PFY-2TS shows a similar absorption spectrum and electron mobility,but significantly different molecular crystallinity and aggregation properties,which results in optimal blend morphology with a polymer donor PBDB-T and physical processes of the device in all-PSCs.As a result,PFY-2TS-based all-PSCs achieved a PCE of 12.31%with a small energy loss of 0.56 eV enabled by the reduced non-radiative energy loss(0.24 eV),which is better than that of 11.08%for the PFY-DTC-based ones.Our work clearly demonstrated that non-fully conjugated polymers as a new class of acceptor materials are very promising for the development of high-performance all-PSCs.展开更多
Electrochromic(EC)materials that change color with voltage have been widely studied for use in dynamic windows.However,colorless-to-colorful switching with high contrast ratio is generically unattainable,especially fo...Electrochromic(EC)materials that change color with voltage have been widely studied for use in dynamic windows.However,colorless-to-colorful switching with high contrast ratio is generically unattainable,especially for colorless-to-black electrochromic materials with an ultrahigh contrast ratio over the entire visible region.In this work,we developed Nb_(1.33)C MXene-based dynamic windows with colorless-to-black switching of up to 75%reversible change in transmittance from 300 to 1,500 nm.By exploring the electrochromic effects of different electrolytes through in situ optical changes and electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance(EQCM),it is found that electrochromic behavior is greatly influenced by the extent of reversible Li^(+)insertion/deinsertion between the two-dimensional Nb_(1.33)C MXene nanosheets.In addition,a colorless-to-black EC device based on Nb_(1.33)C with an overall integrated contrast ratio over 80%was successfully constructed by a solution-processable spin coating method.This work enables a simple route to fabricate MXene-based high-performance electrochromic smart windows,which is important for further expanding the application of MXenes to optoelectronic and photonic applications.展开更多
基金financed by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52103212)Jiangxi Provincial Natural Science Foundation(20224BAB214022)+7 种基金the SSF Synergy Program(EM16-0004)Swedish Energy Agency(EM 42033-1)the Knut and Alice Wal enberg(KAW)Foundation through a Fellowship Grant and a Project Grant(KAW2020.0033)Support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61774077)the Youth Projects of Joint Fund of Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund of Guangdong Province(2020A1515110738)the Key Projects of Joint Fund of Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund of Guangdong Province(2019B1515120073)the High-End Foreign Experts Project(G20200019046)the Guangzhou Key laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials Open Projects Fund(KFVE20200006)
文摘Supercapacitors based on two-dimensional MXene(Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(z))have shown extraordinary performance in ultrathin electrodes with low mass loading,but usually there is a significant reduction in high-rate performance as the thickness increases,caused by increasing ion diffusion limitation.Further limitations include restacking of the nanosheets,which makes it challenging to realize the full potential of these electrode materials.Herein,we demonstrate the design of a vertically aligned MXene hydrogel composite,achieved by thermal-assisted self-assembled gelation,for high-rate energy storage.The highly interconnected MXene network in the hydrogel architecture provides very good electron transport properties,and its vertical ion channel structure facilitates rapid ion transport.The resulting hydrogel electrode show excellent performance in both aqueous and organic electrolytes with respect to high capacitance,stability,and high-rate capability for up to 300μm thick electrodes,which represents a significant step toward practical applications.
基金the Swedish Research Council (2016-06146,2019-02345)Swedish Research Council (grant no.2020-05223)+7 种基金the Swedish Research Council Formas,the Swedish Energy Agency (52473-1)the Wallenberg Foundation (2017.0186 and 2016.0059) for financial supportsupported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2017M3A7B8065584 and 2020R1A4A1018516)Support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61774077)the Key Projects of Joint Fund of Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund of Guangdong Province (2019B1515120073)the Research Fund of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Technology (No.2020B1212030010)Support from Sino-Danish Center for Education and ResearchSwedish Energy Agency (grant no.45420-1)
文摘All-polymer solar cells(all-PSCs)possess attractive merits including superior thermal stability and mechanical flexibility for large-area roll-to-roll processing.Introducing flexible conjugation-break spacers(FCBSs)into backbones of polymer donor(P_(D))or polymer acceptor(P_(A))has been demonstrated as an efficient approach to enhance both the photovoltaic(PV)and mechanical properties of the all-PSCs.However,length dependency of FCBS on certain all-PSC related properties has not been systematically explored.In this regard,we report a series of new non-conjugated P_(A)s by incorporating FCBS with various lengths(2,4,and 8 carbon atoms in thioalkyl segments).Unlike com-mon studies on so-called side-chain engineering,where longer side chains would lead to better solubility of those resulting polymers,in this work,we observe that the solubilities and the resulting photovoltaic/mechanical properties are optimized by a proper FCBS length(i.e.,C2)in P_(A) named PYTS-C2.Its all-PSC achieves a high efficiency of 11.37%,and excellent mechanical robustness with a crack onset strain of 12.39%,significantly superior to those of the other P_(A)s.These results firstly demonstrate the effects of FCBS lengths on the PV performance and mechanical properties of the all-PSCs,providing an effective strategy to fine-tune the structures of P_(A)s for highly efficient and mechanically robust PSCs.
基金The authors thank National Natural Science Foundation of China(61774077,61804065,51673070,51521002,21704082,21875182,21534003,61705090 and 51320105014)National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFA0200700)+6 种基金China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2017M623162),111 Project 2.0(BP2018008)the Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund of Guangdong Province(2019B1515120073)the Research and Development Program in Key Areas of Guangdong Province(2019B090921002 and 2019B010132004)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(21618308)the State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices(2019-skllmd-05)the Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials Open Fund(KFVE20200006)for financial support.L.Ding thanks the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFA0206600)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51773045,21772030,51922032,and 21961160720)for financial support.
文摘Organic solar cell(OSC)has attracted great interests due to its potential applications[1-9].To date,18%power conversion efficiency(PCE)has been achieved in single-junction OSC[10−13],indicating the feasibility of commercialization.This photovoltaic technology currently faces the performance gap between laboratory cells and large-area modules.
基金financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.9133320661274062+2 种基金and11204106)National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China(Grant No.51225301)Guangdong Province Natural Science Fund(No.2014A030313257)
文摘We developed novel hybrid ligands to passivate Pb S colloidal quantum dots(CQDs),and two kinds of solar cells based on as-synthesized CQDs were fabricated to verify the passivation effects of the ligands.It was found that the ligands strongly affected the optical and electrical properties of CQDs,and the performances of solar cells were enhanced strongly.The optimized hybrid ligands,oleic amine/octyl-phosphine acid/Cd Cl2improved power conversion efficiency(PCE)to much higher of 3.72%for Schottky diode cell and 5.04%for p–n junction cell.These results may be beneficial to design passivation strategy for low-cost and high-performance CQDs solar cells.
基金the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(61774077,12304473,62175094)the Key Projects of Joint Fund of Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund of Guangdong Province(2019B1515120073,2019B090921002)+3 种基金the Guangdong Science and Technology Research Foundation(2020A1414010036)the High-End Foreign Experts Project(G20200019046)the Young Talent Support Project of Henan Province(2024HYTP001)the Opening Project of Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Chemical Materials and Devices,Ministry of Education,Jianghan University(JDGD-202302)
文摘Despite the rapid advances of red and green perovskite light-emitting diodes(Pe LEDs),achieving high brightness with high external quantum efficiency(EQE)remains a challenge for the pure-blue Pe LEDs,which greatly hinders their practical applications,such as white-light illumination and in optical communication as a high-speed and low-loss light source.Herein,we report a high-performance pure-blue Pe LED based on mixed-halide quasi-2D perovskites incorporated with a zwitterionic molecule of 3-(benzyldimethylammonio)propanesulfonate(3-BAS).Experimental and density functional theory analysis reveals that 3-BAS can simultaneously eliminate non-radiative recombination loss,suppress halide migration,and regulate phase distribution for smoothing energy transfer in the mixed-halide quasi-2D perovskites,leading to the final perovskites with high photoluminescence quantum yield and robust spectrum stability.Thus,the highperformance pure-blue Pe LED with a recorded brightness with 1806 cd m-2and a relative higher EQE of 9.25%is achieved,which is successfully demonstrated in a visible light communication system for voice signal transmission.We pave the way for achieving highly efficient pure-blue Pe LEDs with great application potential in future optical communication networks.
基金This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council(2015-04853,2016-06146,2019-04683)the Swedish Research Council Formas,the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation(2017.0186,2016.0059)+5 种基金the Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices(South China University of Technology,2020-skllmd-07)E.Moons thanks the Swedish Energy Council for financial support(project 48598-1)W.Su thanks the project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2020M673054)Postdoctoral Fund of Jinan University,and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22005121)L.Hou thanks the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61774077)Support from Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research is fully acknowledged by D.Yu.Y.Li thanks the financial support from the Science and Technology Program of Shanxi Province(2019JQ-244).
文摘The non-fully conjugated polymer as a new class of acceptor materials has shown some advantages over its small molecular counterpart when used in photoactive layers for all-polymer solar cells(all-PSCs),despite a low power conversion efficiency(PCE)caused by its narrow absorption spectra.Herein,a novel non-fully conjugated polymer acceptor PFY-2TS with a low bandgap of~1.40 eV was developed,via polymerizing a largeπ-fused small molecule acceptor(SMA)building block(namely YBO)with a non-conjugated thioalkyl linkage.Compared with its precursor YBO,PFY-2TS retains a similar low bandgap but a higher LUMO level.Moreover,compared with the structural analog of YBO-based fully conjugated polymer acceptor PFY-DTC,PFY-2TS shows a similar absorption spectrum and electron mobility,but significantly different molecular crystallinity and aggregation properties,which results in optimal blend morphology with a polymer donor PBDB-T and physical processes of the device in all-PSCs.As a result,PFY-2TS-based all-PSCs achieved a PCE of 12.31%with a small energy loss of 0.56 eV enabled by the reduced non-radiative energy loss(0.24 eV),which is better than that of 11.08%for the PFY-DTC-based ones.Our work clearly demonstrated that non-fully conjugated polymers as a new class of acceptor materials are very promising for the development of high-performance all-PSCs.
基金This work was financed by the SSF Research Infrastructure Fellow Program(No.RIF 14–0074)the SSF Synergy Program EM16–0004,and by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg(KAW)Foundation through a Fellowship Grant,a Project Grant(No.KAW2020.0033)+4 种基金for support of the electron microscopy laboratory in Linköping University.Support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61774077)the Guangdong Joint Research Fund(No.2020A1515110738)the Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China(No.2020M683187)the Key Projects of Joint Fund of Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund of Guangdong Province(No.2019B1515120073)the Guangzhou Key laboratory of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials Open Projects Fund(No.KFVE20200006)are also acknowledged.
文摘Electrochromic(EC)materials that change color with voltage have been widely studied for use in dynamic windows.However,colorless-to-colorful switching with high contrast ratio is generically unattainable,especially for colorless-to-black electrochromic materials with an ultrahigh contrast ratio over the entire visible region.In this work,we developed Nb_(1.33)C MXene-based dynamic windows with colorless-to-black switching of up to 75%reversible change in transmittance from 300 to 1,500 nm.By exploring the electrochromic effects of different electrolytes through in situ optical changes and electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance(EQCM),it is found that electrochromic behavior is greatly influenced by the extent of reversible Li^(+)insertion/deinsertion between the two-dimensional Nb_(1.33)C MXene nanosheets.In addition,a colorless-to-black EC device based on Nb_(1.33)C with an overall integrated contrast ratio over 80%was successfully constructed by a solution-processable spin coating method.This work enables a simple route to fabricate MXene-based high-performance electrochromic smart windows,which is important for further expanding the application of MXenes to optoelectronic and photonic applications.
