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Organic solar cells: Going green

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High-performance polymer solar cells are normally processed with halogenated solvents, which are toxic and hazardous. Now, high power-conversion efficiency in bulk-heterojunction devices is achieved by using a non-toxic hydrocarbon solvent through an environmentally friendly processing route.

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Figure 1: Hydrocarbon solvents enable the processing of high-performance organic solar cells.

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  1. Guoping Luo and Hongbin Wu are at the Institute of Polymer Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China.,

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Luo, G., Wu, H. Organic solar cells: Going green. Nat Energy 1, 16001 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2016.1

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