Physics

Organic chemistry

Covalent bond

Energy conversion efficiency

Organic solar cell

Organic semiconductor

Miscibility

Excited state

Band gap

Atomic physics

Composite material

Chemistry

Materials science

Condensed matter physics

Acceptor

Molecule

Singlet state

Crystallinity

Solar cell

Optoelectronics

Polymer

Photochemistry

Triplet state

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

High‐efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs) largely rely on polymer donors. Herein, we report a new building block BNT and a relevant polymer PBNT‐BDD featuring B‐N covalent bond for application in OSCs. The BNT unit is synthesized in only 3 steps, leading to the facile synthesis of PBNT‐BDD. When blended with a nonfullerene acceptor Y6‐BO, PBNT‐BDD afforded a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 16.1 % in an OSC, comparable to the benzo[1,2‐b:4,5‐b′]dithiophene (BDT)‐based counterpart. The nonradiative recombination energy loss of 0.19 eV was afforded by PBNT‐BDD. PBNT‐BDD also exhibited weak crystallinity and appropriate miscibility with Y6‐BO, benefitting of morphological stability. The singlet–triplet gap (Δ E ST ) of PBNT‐BDD is as low as 0.15 eV, which is much lower than those of common organic semiconductors (≥0.6 eV). As a result, the triplet state of PBNT‐BDD is higher than the charge transfer (CT) state, which would suppress the recombination via triplet state effectively.

A Facile Synthesized Polymer Featuring B‐N Covalent Bond and Small Singlet‐Triplet Gap for High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells