Prof. Philip C.Y. Chow from The University of Hong Kong will visit the Department to Chemistry on July 1st and will give a research seminar entitled ‘Mechanisms behind efficient and stable polymer solar cells’.
This will take place 2pm at MSRH, room G23/G24.
The talk will broadcasted online via the link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NWRkMjliYTAtZTc0NC00MzlmLWJhZDYtNDQ5N2M0NGE4ZDQx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%222b897507-ee8c-4575-830b-4f8267c3d307%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22c75bafde-d27a-4e59-892a-4a5f3a5861ff%22%7d
Let me know if you wish to meet Philip at MSRH. He might be visiting SK on Wednesday as well.
The abstract is below.
Title: Mechanisms behind efficient and stable polymer solar cells
Abstract: The quest for sustainability and carbon neutrality calls for the development of low-cost and environmental-friendly solar photovoltaic technologies. Recently, the solar power conversion efficiencies of organic solar cells (OSC) have increased to 20%, closing the gap with inorganic and hybrid solar PV cells. The major breakthrough behind the great efficiency improvement is the development of non-fullerene acceptor molecules, replacing the traditional fullerene molecules as electron-accepting materials. Understanding the photophysical processes underlying these high-performance materials is crucial to OSC research. In this talk, I will present experimental and theoretical results that shed lights on the structure-property relationship of high-performance OSC blends based on state-of-the-art Y-type small molecule and polymeric acceptors.