Water Processable Graphene Oxide:Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Composite as Anode Modifier for Polymer Solar Cells
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The development of affordable photovoltaic technologies, i.e. solar cells, offers one of the most promising solutions for clean, renewable energy. Solution-processed polymer photovoltaic cells have attracted much attention since they can be manufactured with inexpensive, high-throughput techniques. [ 1 ] They are light weight and can also be fl exible, making it possible to integrate them with ordinary surfaces at large scale to provide inexpensive power sources. They can also be customized to serve as cheap, disposable, soft generators for remote, autonomous micro devices. With a rapid progress in both materials design and device architectures, it is envisioned that polymer photovoltaic system with power conversion effi ciency (PCE) over 10% can be realized. [ 2 ]
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