Masakazu Nakamura

Solar cells are an important contributor to a renewable energy supply, but photovoltaic panel waste will quickly end up being an enormous problem. Now, in a study just recently released in Journal of Materials Chemistry A, scientists from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) have checked out the science that may assist improve the utility of easily mass-producible, all-polymer-based solar cells.

All-polymer blend solar cells are expected to play an important role in the transition to clean power technologies because they can be easily created in large-scale flexible sheets. Nevertheless, their efficiency has lagged behind that of more typical silicon alternatives, in addition to various other organic solar cells.