Apart from making graphene, graphene oxide itself itself is a fascinating material that has many intriguing properties. Researchers have noe developed a graphene-based conductive glue that can function as a metal-free solder for creating mechanical and electrical connections in organic optoelectronic devices. As a proof-of-concept, they fabricated polymer tandem solar cells - multi-junction photovoltaic devices, in which two sub-cells are stacked to achieve higher overall solar absorption - by a direct 'gluing' process. The water-based sticky interconnect and the associated adhesive lamination process could transform the serial layer-by-layer fabrication of tandem devices into a parallel mode, in which the subcells can be independently fabricated and adjusted to balance their photocurrents for achieving high efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apart from making graphene, graphene oxide itself itself is a fascinating material that has many intriguing properties. Researchers have noe developed a graphene-based conductive glue that can function as a metal-free solder for creating mechanical and electrical connections in organic … Continue reading