Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents

Nature Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Zhao, Jingbo ^a   Li, Yunke ^a   Yang, Guofang ^a,b   Jiang, Kui ^a,c   Lin, Haoran ^a   Ade, Harald ^d   Ma, Wei ^b   Yan, He ^a,c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HKUST SHENZHEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOGENATION; HAZARDS; HYDROCARBON REFINING; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM ADDITIVES; SOLVENTS; THROUGHPUT;

HALOGENATED SOLVENTS; HYDROCARBON SOLVENTS; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; POLYMER SIDE-CHAINS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84996435236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20587546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NENERGY.2015.27     Document Type: Article

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