Solar-cell efficiency improved with new polymer devices -- ScienceDaily New light has been shed on solar power generation using devices made with polymers. Researchers identified a new polymer -- a type of large molecule that forms plastics and other familiar materials -- which improved the efficiency of solar cells. The grou
UChicago-Argonne National Lab team improves solar-cell efficiency | UChicago News Citation: “Ternary blend polymer solar cells with enhanced power conversion efficiency,” by Luyao Lu, Tao Zu, Wei Chen, Erik S. Landry, and Luping Yu, Nature Photonics, Vol. 8, September 2014, published online Aug. 17, 2014, DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.172.
New polymer makes solar cells more efficient - Futurity Solar cells made from polymers have the potential to be cheap and lightweight, but scientists are struggling to make them generate electricity efficiently. A polymer is a type of large molecule that forms plastics and other familiar materials. “The field
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Structure of All-Polymer Solar Cells Impedes Efficiency Organic solar cells are made of thin layers of interpenetrating structures from two different conducting organic materials ...
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"Breaking the Barriers of All-Polymer Solar Cells: Solving Electron ... All-polymer solar cells (APSC) are a class of organic solar cells in which hole and electron transporting phases are ...
Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cells « Verduzco Laboratory ... While the idea of all-polymer solar cells is not new, the best all-polymer solar cells perform poorly even in comparison to ...