How to Enhance the Efficiency of Polymer Solar Cells

Solar cell power station

Structure-property correlations can be helpful in gaining higher efficiencies in polymer solar cells. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyze these correlations in terms of LUMO-reducing moieties, and effectively using electron withdrawing and side-chain substituents.

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Printing with Lasers: Making Electronics Quick and Easy

An optical microscopy image on of the channels in a printed OECT array.

A European research team has made a breakthrough in the printing of organic electronics.

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Thermally Stable Solar Cell Materials

A nanostructured solar cell

A new approach can help scientists predict the thermal stability of potential absorber materials for solar cells.

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Latest news in polymer science: editor picks from Polymer Physics

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Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for March 2012

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Alternative Catalyst System for Semiconducting Polymers

new catalyst for semiconducting polymers

Researchers from the University of Michigan present a palladium catalyst that can mediate a living, chain-growth polymerization of pi-conjugated monomers.

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March editor’s choice papers in polymer physics

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Fourteen steps to DFT Nirvana

Density Functional Theory (DFT) is a versatile and powerful quantum mechanical modeling technique.

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Teaching an Electronic Pavlov’s Dog: Memristive Devices in Neuromorphic Circuits

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Researchers demonstrate learning in a memristive device.

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High-Energy Supercapacitors based on Graphene Composites

A TEM image of the graphene composite used in the construction of the positive electrode, clearly showing the flowerlike shapes that have been deposited.

A Chinese research team have constructed a powerful new supercapacitor using two types of graphene – composite and porous.

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