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Kyra N Schwarz1, Sam B Farley, Trevor A Smith
1School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia. ghiggino@unimelb.edu.au.
Nanoscale
|November 17, 2015
Abstract:
Organic semiconductor nanoparticles provide a potentially scalable approach for photovoltaics that can be processed from aqueous media. Particles of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT):phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) were prepared using two techniques; those produced by a mini-emulsion method contained greater amounts of crystalline P3HT domains with charge generation resembling phase-separated annealed solvent-cast films.
