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Cuprous thiocyanate

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35 mg/mL in diethyl sulfide

Synonym(s):

Copper thiocyanate perovskite hole transport material, Copper(I) thiocyanate perovskite hole transport material, Thiocyanic acid in diethyl sulfide

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Linear Formula:
CuSCN
MDL number:
MFCD00010980
UNSPSC Code:
12352101
NACRES:
NA.23

form

liquid

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Application

Layers of CuSCN exhibit high hole mobility, high thermal stability, and exceptional optical transparency across the UV-Vis/NIR spectrum. CuSCN finds application as an alternative to organic hole transport materials such as PEDOT:PSS and Spiro-MeOTAD in perovskite-based solar cells (PSCs). Photovoltaic conversion efficiencies of >20% have been reported in PSCs with CuSCN [5]. In addition, compared to Spiro-OMeTAD the CuSCN-based PSCs have been shown to exhibit better thermal stability.

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Statements

H225,H315,H319,H410

Hazard Classifications

Aquatic Acute 1 - Aquatic Chronic 1 - Eye Irrit. 2 - Flam. Liq. 2 - Skin Irrit. 2

Storage Class Code

3 - Flammable liquids

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

25.7 °F - closed cup

Flash Point(C)

-3.5 °C - closed cup

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High-Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Cells Based on the Solution-Processable Hole Transporting Interlayer Copper Thiocyanate (CuSCN) as a Replacement for PEDOT:PSS
Gross N Y, et al.
Advanced Energy Materials, 5, 1401529-1401529 (2015)
Planar perovskite solar cells employing copper(I) thiocyanate/N,N′-di(1-naphthyl)-N,N′-diphenyl-(1,1′-biphenyl)-4,4′-diamine bilayer structure as hole transport layers
Tseng Z L ,et al.
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 57, 02CE07-02CE07 (2018)
Perovskite solar cells with CuSCN hole extraction layers yield stabilized efficiencies greater than 20%
N Arora, et al.
Science, 358(6364), 768-771 (2017)
Pichaya Pattanasattayavong et al.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 49(39), 4154-4156 (2012-12-12)
The optical, structural and charge transport properties of solution-processed films of copper(I) thiocyanate (CuSCN) are investigated in this work. As-processed CuSCN films of ~20 nm in thickness are found to be nano-crystalline, highly transparent and exhibit intrinsic hole transporting characteristics
Pichaya Pattanasattayavong et al.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 25(10), 1504-1509 (2013-01-03)
The wide bandgap and highly transparent inorganic compound copper(I) thiocyanate (CuSCN) is used for the first time to fabricate p-type thin-film transistors processed from solution at room temperature. By combining CuSCN with the high-k relaxor ferroelectric polymeric dielectric P(VDF-TrFE-CFE), we

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