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journal article·2014-06

Nanostructures: Fullerene Nucleating Agents: A Route Towards Thermally Stable Photovoltaic Blends (Adv. Energy Mater. 9/2014)

Camilla Lindqvist, Jonas Bergqvist, Ching‐Chiao Feng, Stefan Gustafsson, Olof Bäcke, Neil D. Treat, Céline Bounioux, Patrik Henriksson, Renee Kroon, Ergang Wang, Anke Sanz‐Velasco, Per Magnus Kristiansen, Natalie Stingelin, Eva Olsson, Olle Inganäs, Mats R. Andersson, Christian Müller

Advanced Energy Materials· Volume 4· Issue 9
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Abstract

In article number 1301437, Christian Müller and co-workers report the use of fullerene nucleating agents to thermally arrest the nanostructure of photovoltaic blends that are composed of a non-crystalline thiophene-quinoxaline copolymer and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM). In particular C60 efficiently nucleates PCBM crystallization and reduces the size of fullerene crystals to only 200 nm. Solar cells show significantly improved thermal stability of the bulk-heterojunction nanostructure, even after annealing at an elevated temperature of 130 °C.
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NanomaterialsElectronic materialsMaterials processing

OpenAlex topics: Fullerene Chemistry and Applications

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Affiliations

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering/Polymer Technology Chalmers University of Technology 41296 Göteborg Sweden

Biomolecular and Organic Electronics, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology Linköping University 58183 Linköping Sweden

Department of Applied Physics Chalmers University of Technology 41296 Göteborg Sweden

Department of Materials and Centre for Plastic Electronics Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ UK

Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990 Midreshet Ben‐Gurion Israel

Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience – MC2 Chalmers University of Technology 41296 Göteborg Sweden

Institute of Polymer Nanotechnology (INKA) University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) 5210 Windisch Switzerland

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