(PhysOrg.com) -- In the effort to convert sunlight into electricity, photovoltaic solar cells that use conductive organic polymers for light absorption and conversion have shown great potential.

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say their polymer coating could be used to protect photovoltaic modules, due to its impermeability to gases. The team has demonstrated that a ...

The field of organic solar cells and polymer electronics is rapidly evolving, addressing global energy needs through lightweight, flexible, and cost-effective photovoltaic technologies. Organic solar ...

Researchers out of UCLA have developed an affordable-to-produce transparent solar cell that can be applied to windows, giving them the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to ...

The lightweight material, only nanometers thick, blocks gases more effectively than any polymer ever made and rivals graphene’s molecular impermeability. The new polymer can be produced in bulk and ...

The molecular structure of GTA, the normalized PCE curves of GTA-based IS-PSCs under various stretch and stretch-release cycles. Recently, a research team led by Professor Zhi-Guo Zhang from Beijing ...

MIT researchers have developed a lightweight polymer film that is nearly impenetrable to gas molecules, raising the ...

D polymer film that’s nearly impermeable to any gas may soon protect chips, sensors, OLEDs, and next-gen solar cells from ...

Researchers from the Wuhan University of Technology in China have designed and synthesized a new non-fullerene acceptor for organic solar cells. One of their fabricated devices achieved the highest ...

Engineers in the United States have developed a polymer coating they say could be used to protect PV modules, due to its ...