Highly flexible and lightweight organic solar cells on biocompatible silk fibroin

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 20670-20675

  Liu, Yuqiang ^a   Qi, Ning ^a   Song, Tao ^a   Jia, Mingliang ^a   Xia, Zhouhui ^a   Yuan, Zhongcheng ^a   Yuan, Wei ^a   Zhang, Ke Qin ^a   Sun, Baoquan ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

biocompatible; flexibility; organic solar cells; silk fibroin; silver nanowires

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILVER NANOWIRES; SUBSTRATES; TIN OXIDES;

BIOCOMPATIBLE; BIOCOMPATIBLE INTERFACES; EMBEDDED STRUCTURES; FLEXIBILITY; FLEXIBLE ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ROLL-TO-ROLL PROCESSING; SILK FIBROIN;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

BIOMATERIAL; FIBROIN; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; NANOWIRE; SILK; SILVER; TIN DERIVATIVE;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; SOLAR ENERGY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ELECTRONICS; FIBROINS; HUMANS; NANOWIRES; SILK; SILVER; SOLAR ENERGY; TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84917691468     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am504163r     Document Type: Article

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