Plastic Solar Cells

Review on the Processing and Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites and Nanocoatings and Their Applications in the Packaging, Automotive and Solar Energy Fields

“…Nanoparticles are established materials for OPV, but only mainly inside the OPV itself. Fullerenes are used as electron acceptor and electron transporting material [ 29 ]. PEDOT:PSS is used as a hole selective and transporting material [ 305 , 306 , 307 , 308 ].…”

“…As inorganic n-type contacts, TiO x and ZnO can be used. Also indium-doped zinc oxide (IZO) is possible [ 29 ]. An additional incorporation of metal nanoparticles such as gold or silver showed efficiency enhancement of polymeric solar cells, mainly ascribed to improved photocurrent density resulting from an excited localized surface plasmon resonance [ 309 , 310 , 311 ].…”

“…Energy harvesting by fullerenes have already been reported in the organic photovoltaic (OPV) industry [29]. As for packaging, for the outer layer, the use of nanostructured materials has been found to improve humidity, gas and UV barrier properties of solar cells in general.…”

“…In terms of solar energy, contributing to the multifunctionality and efficiency of solar panels, nanocomposites and nanocoatings are of relevance either in the photoactive layers, in protective layers, or on the surface of the solar panels. Energy harvesting by fullerenes have already been reported in the organic photovoltaic (OPV) industry [ 29 ]. As for packaging, for the outer layer, the use of nanostructured materials has been found to improve humidity, gas and UV barrier properties of solar cells in general.…”

Design and synthesis of stable indigo polymer semiconductors for organic field-effect transistors with high fluoride sensitivity and selectivity

“…Therefore, OFETs have many potential applications such as exible displays, radio frequency identication tags, chemical or biological sensors and therapeutic medical devices. [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] Nonetheless, although OFETs have been studied as sensors for the detection of numerous chemical analytes, 30,[33][34][35][36][37] there are only a few for sensing ions in aqueous solutions mainly due to the instability of most organic semiconductors towards water and oxygen under device operation. To the best of our knowledge, there has been only one report on the OFET-based uoride ion sensors, 38 where the gate electrode instead of the polymer semiconductor layer was in direct contact with the aqueous solution containing the analyte uoride ions.…”