In current designs of polymer photovoltaic cells, one of the components is a polymer that has three functions: to absorb light; to inject an electron into the second component; and to carry the ...

Flexible organic cells. Gallium arsenide is a popular choice for space missions due to its high efficiency. It can convert a ...

Itaru Osaka’s story with organic photovoltaics ... to traditional solar cells, but are constructed of plastic instead of silicon. The original π-conjugated polymer was polyacetylene, discovered ...

Just like your body has a skeleton, every cell in your body has a skeleton—a cytoskeleton to be precise. This provides cells ...

A team of solar engineers at Huaqiao University, working with a pair of chemists from the City University of Hong Kong and ...

The first prototype will consist of a “stack” with 10 cells and will be able ... especially in private photovoltaic systems. “The aluminum polymer battery is a promising alternative to ...

The PV leaf is protected only by a 0.7-mm thick ... into the potassium polyacrylate (PAAK) superabsorbent polymer (SAP) hydrogel cells, distributing water over the entire area covered by the ...