MOSPA · Multi-electroactive organic semiconductors for photovoltaic applications

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Project objective

The main drawback of organic solar cells is their effectiveness in converting sunlight into electricity: they run at approximately 20% of the efficiency of silicon devices. The development of plastic PV cells is still in its infancy and a range of strategies needs to be investigated in order to raise the efficiencies of these devices. We intend to prepare multigram amounts of active, organic materials, which will be assessed and assembled into PV cells. Our synthetic targets represent a range of new oligomers (short chain polymers with a precise chain length), based on oligothiophene and polythiophene systems and metallopolymers. These compounds need to be soluble, stable materials that can generate light-induced electron-hole pairs within the same molecule or in blends with suitable acceptor molecules.

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• UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE · GLASGOWCoordinatorUnited Kingdom

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