{"id":219937,"date":"2022-12-26T20:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T14:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=219937"},"modified":"2022-12-26T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T14:31:19","slug":"organic-solar-cells-developed-on-steel-substrates-can-convert-a-steel-roof-into-an-energy-producing-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/organic-solar-cells-developed-on-steel-substrates-can-convert-a-steel-roof-into-an-energy-producing-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic solar cells developed on steel substrates can convert a steel roof into an energy-producing device"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Source<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: The post is based on the article <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cOrganic solar cells developed on steel substrates can convert a steel roof into an energy-producing device<\/span><\/b><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">published in<\/span> the <b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">PIB <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">24th December 2022<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>What is the News?<\/h5>\n<p>Scientists have developed organic solar cell devices consisting of a blend of organic polymer (PTB7) as a donor and (PCBM) organic semiconductor as an acceptor.<\/p>\n<h5>About the third-generation solar cell technologies<\/h5>\n<p>These are solution-processed Solar Cells based on semiconducting organic macromolecules, inorganic nanoparticles or hybrids. These technologies lie in their integration with flexible and conformal surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>However, this integration requires developing new top transparent conducting electrodes as alternatives to indium tin oxide, an optoelectronic material currently in use.<\/p>\n<p>The present materials pose limitations because of their brittleness and their optoelectronic efficiency varies with temperature.<\/p>\n<h5>About the recent research on organic solar cells<\/h5>\n<p>Recently developed organic solar cell devices consisting of a combination of an organic polymer and organic semiconductor developed on steel substrates. Scientists demonstrated the integration of multi-layered electrodes with organic solar cells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advantages<\/strong>: <strong>a)<\/strong> The new electrodes offer higher optical transmission as compared to only metallic electrodes, <strong>b)<\/strong> The devices with multilayer electrodes showed a clear improvement in the photovoltaic performance by 1.5 times, as compared with those obtained with single-layer top metal electrodes of gold, and<strong> c)<\/strong> The new organic solar cells can convert a steel roof into an energy-producing device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cOrganic solar cells developed on steel substrates can convert a steel roof into an energy-producing device\u201d published in the PIB on 24th December 2022.\u00a0 What is the News? Scientists have developed organic solar cell devices consisting of a blend of organic polymer (PTB7) as a donor and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/organic-solar-cells-developed-on-steel-substrates-can-convert-a-steel-roof-into-an-energy-producing-device\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Organic solar cells developed on steel substrates can convert a steel roof into an energy-producing device<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-219937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}