Design of Super-Paramagnetic Core-Shell Nanoparticles for Enhanced Performance of Inverted Polymer Solar Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 45, 2015, Pages 25061-25068

  Jaramillo, Johny ^a   Boudouris, Bryan W ^b   Barrero, César A ^a   Jaramillo, Franklin ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

controlled nanoparticle synthesis; core shell nanoparticles; inverted organic solar cells; nanostructural characterization; photocurrent enhancement; superparamagnetic cores

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; CHARACTERIZATION; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SOLAR CELLS; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC OXIDE;

CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES; INVERTED ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; NANOPARTICLE SYNTHESIS; NANOSTRUCTURAL; PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENT; SUPERPARAMAGNETICS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84947921741     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b09686     Document Type: Article

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