Photoinduced smart, self-healing polymer sealant for photovoltaics

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2064-2072

  Banerjee, Sanjib ^a   Tripathy, Ranjan ^a   Cozzens, David ^a   Nagy, Tibor ^b   Keki, Sandor ^b   Zsuga, Miklos ^b   Faust, Rudolf ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

functional coatings; photochemistry; photovoltaic devices; polyisobutylene; self healing

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COATINGS; CROSSLINKING; DESORPTION; HYDRIDES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PLASTIC COATINGS; POLYACRYLATES; POLYMERS; PROTECTIVE COATINGS; REPAIR; SELF-HEALING MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; STARS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

CROSS-LINKED POLYMERS; FUNCTIONAL COATING; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION/IONIZATION-TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLYISOBUTYLENES; SELF-HEALING; SELF-HEALING POLYMERS;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 84921788824     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am508096c     Document Type: Article

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