synthesis and characterization of chiral nano-poly [(±)-2-sec-butyl aniline] via fecl3.6h2o as an oxidant and investigation of its application in the first chiral solar cell

A chiral derivative of polyaniline, poly [(±)-2-sec-butyl aniline] (psba), was successfully synthesized. the polymerization is carried out by oxidative polymerization of (±)-2-sec-butyl aniline in the presence of fecl3.6h2o under both solid (solvent-free) and solution state conditions. several techniques used to characterize the polymers, such as; ultraviolet-visible (uv-vis) spectroscopy, fourier-transform infrared (ft-ir), dr. blade s method was used to construct polymer solar cells with a structure such as fto/tio2/1/al, fto/tio2/2/al, fto/tio2/3/al and fto/tio2/4/al. the pce (power conversion efficiency) of the fto/tio2/1/al, fto/tio2/2/al, fto/tio2/3/al and fto/tio2/4/al samples were 0.36, 0.21, 0.32 and 0.16%, respectively. the advantages of our solar cell are simple structure (single layer), easy to fabricate, fewer fabrication costs, green synthesis condition, and the high stability of the resulted cells