Highly transparent electrochromic plastic device that changes to purple and to blue by increasing the potential

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2093-2097

  Pozo Gonzalo, Cristina ^a   Salsamendi, Maitane ^a   Viñuales, Ana ^a   Pomposo, Jose A ^a   Grande, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a Centro de Investigacion Tecnologica En Electroquimica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electrochromic device; Ionic liquid; Plastic; Viologen

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCES; COLOR CHANGES; COLORATION EFFICIENCIES; ELECTROACTIVE MATERIAL; ELECTROCHROMIC BEHAVIOR; ELECTROCHROMICS; ION STORAGE; MEMORY EFFECTS; PLASTIC DEVICES; POLYMERIC MATRICES; TWO-MATERIALS; VIOLOGEN; VIOLOGENS;

BLEACHING; CLEANING; COLORING; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; IONIC LIQUIDS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; IONS; PLASTICS; TRANSPARENCY;

ELECTROCHROMISM;

EID: 70349772230     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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