Sentences with phrase «as organic solar cells»

Bringing everything together, Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel Laureate for Chemistry and our Past President, talks on BBC World News about the future of renewable energy and how advances in harvesting the energy of the sun, such as organic solar cells and artificial photosynthesis, are being inspired by nature.

As organic solar cell technology matures, efficiencies will likely increase steadily, in much the way personal computers have evolved.

Not exact matches

One type, known as plastic, organic or polymer photovoltaic solar cells, uses conductive organic polymers or organic molecules to absorb light, transfer the charge and produce electricity.

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are proving to be incredibly flexible with a myriad of potential applications including as antimicrobial agents, hydrogen - storage materials and solar - cell components.

To construct the solar cell, the semiconductor molecules are deposited as thin films on glass with the same production methods used by organic light - emitting diode manufacturers.

In a semi-transparent solar cell module as shown in the photograph, electrodes with two variants of the polymer PEDOT: PSS (commonly used in organic electronics) are used, where one acts as the anode and the other is modified to become the cathode.

Doctoral student and first author Tim Gehan says that organic solar cells made in this way can be semi-transparent, as well, «so you could replace tinted windows in a skyscraper and have them all producing electricity during the day when it's needed.

The new method should reduce the time nano manufacturing firms spend in trial - and - error searches for materials to make electronic devices such as solar cells, organic transistors and organic light - emitting diodes.

This novel technique and the information it provides have significant implications for future transport property manipulation in electronic devices featuring organic molecules, such as solar cells and light - emitting diodes.

The organic electronics field is gaining prominence in both academia and industry as devices such as organic light - emitting diodes and solar cells have multiple advantages over conventional inorganic devices, including much lower potential production costs and broader substrate compatibility.

Organic electronic devices such as OLEDs and organic solar cells use thin films of organic molecules for the electrically active materials, making flexible and low - cost devices possible.

Therefore, organic dyes are promising lightweight materials for application as e.g. organic semiconductors, but also in for instance LCD displays or solar cells.

Using Argonne's Advanced Photon Source, researchers analyzed how organic solar cells» crystal structures develop as they are produced under different conditions.

Research in the Bredas group focuses on computational materials chemistry: computational methods are used as a tool to uncover the properties of novel advanced materials, understand their chemistry and physics, and derive an integrated understanding of the intrinsic molecular - and nano - scale processes in a variety of emerging applications (such as solar cells or low - power displays), especially in the fields of organic electronics, photonics, and information technology.

The limitation with previous dye sensitized solar cells is they required a volatile organic solvent as the electrolyte.