Conducting polymers in the fields of energy, environmental remediation, and chemical–chiral sensors

JG Ibanez, ME Rincón, S Gutierrez-Granados… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conducting polymers (CPs), thanks to their unique properties, structures made on-demand,
new composite mixtures, and possibility of deposit on a surface by chemical, physical, or …

Recent advances in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells

L Lu, T Zheng, Q Wu, AM Schneider, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
It is clear that the current energy regimen, which relies on nonrenewable and polluting
energy sources, has unsustainable consequences for societal, economical, geopolitical, and …

Stability of organic solar cells: challenges and strategies

P Cheng, X Zhan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) present some advantages, such as simple preparation, light
weight, low cost and large-area flexible fabrication, and have attracted much attention in …

Progress in understanding degradation mechanisms and improving stability in organic photovoltaics

WR Mateker, MD McGehee - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the degradation mechanisms of organic photovoltaics is particularly
important, as they tend to degrade faster than their inorganic counterparts, such as silicon …

Amorphous inorganic semiconductors for the development of solar cell, photoelectrocatalytic and photocatalytic applications

B Wang, GM Biesold, M Zhang, Z Lin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Amorphous inorganic semiconductors have attracted growing interest due to their unique
electrical and optical properties that arise from their intrinsic disordered structure and …

Fundamentals of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells: An overview of stability/degradation issues and strategies for improvement

S Rafique, SM Abdullah, K Sulaiman… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the last few years, the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) based on bulk
heterojunction (BHJ) structure has remarkably improved. However, for a large scale roll to …

Recent advances in morphology optimization for organic photovoltaics

H Lee, C Park, DH Sin, JH Park, K Cho - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics are an important part of a next‐generation energy‐harvesting
technology that uses a practically infinite pollutant‐free energy source. They have the …

On the glass transition of polymer semiconductors and its impact on polymer solar cell stability

C Müller - Chemistry of Materials, 2015 - ACS Publications
The glass transition temperature is a critical processing parameter that governs the kinetics
of molecular organization of polymer semiconductors during solidification. Yet, little attention …

Evidencing excellent thermal‐and photostability for single‐component organic solar cells with inherently built‐in microstructure

Y He, T Heumüller, W Lai, G Feng… - Advanced energy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Solution‐processed organic solar cells (OSCs) are promising low‐cost, flexible, portable
renewable sources for future energy supply. The state‐of‐the‐art OSCs are typically …

Procedures and practices for evaluating thin‐film solar cell stability

R Roesch, T Faber, E Von Hauff… - Advanced Energy …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
During the last few decades, and in some cases only the last few years, novel thin‐film
photovoltaic (PV) technologies such as dye‐sensitized solar cells (DSSC), organic solar …