Improved efficiency and stability of polymer solar cells utilizing two-dimensional reduced graphene oxide: Graphene oxide nanocomposites as hole-collection material

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 22334-22342

  Chen, Lei ^a   Du, Donghe ^a   Sun, Kuan ^a   Hou, Jianhui ^b   Ouyang, Jianyong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

graphene oxide; hole collection; polymer solar cells; reduced graphene oxide

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE OXIDE; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE; STABILITY;

GRAPHENE OXIDE NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POLY(3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE):POLY(STYRENESULFONATE); POLYMER SOLAR CELL (PSCS); POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); [6 ,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS;

POLYMER SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84919946898     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506326y     Document Type: Article

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