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Improving the efficiency of polymer solar cells via a treatment of methanol : water on the active layers

Biao Guo, Weilong Zhou, Mengchun Wu, Junjie Lv, Chengzhuo Yu, Fenghong Li, Zhonghan Hu

Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 2016 · 25 citations · 49 references

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Abstract

Significant improvement in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of polymer solar cells (PSCs) has been observed when the active layer was treated with a mixture of methanol and water (M : W).

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