Ambient condition curable, highly weather stable anti-soiling coating for photovoltaic application
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Abstract Photovoltaic conversion technologies took the opportunity to trap the abundant solar energy, but soiling reduces these device's energy yield. In this endeavor, we developed a novel anti-soiling coating with excellent weather stability to counter the challenges posed by soiling. The developed anti-soiling coating characteristics like ambient condition curablity, good mechanical and weather stability to encounter the real field conditions are because of the bonding of functionalized hybrid Zr-O-Si network with the glass. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, FTIR, and Raman spectroscopy analysis indicate the presence of the functionalized hybrid Zr-O-Si network in the coating. The coating exhibited good thermal stability up to 150 °C and observed a minimal decrement of
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OpenAlex topics: solar cell performance optimization · Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques · Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies
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