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ReviewPolymers2017

Self-Assembled Organic Materials for Photovoltaic Application.

Tanwistha Ghosh, Jayanthy S Panicker, Vijayakumar C Nair

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Review in Polymers, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Spin Transport in Organic Molecules.Frontiers in chemistry · 2019
    Review
  5. 2-Hydroxy-ACS omega · 2018
    Article
  6. Noncovalent Interactions in the Catechol Dimer.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017
    Article
  7. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tanwistha GhoshPhotosciences and Photonics Section, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Trivandrum 695019, India. tanwistha.myrtus@gmail.com.
Jayanthy S PanickerPhotosciences and Photonics Section, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Trivandrum 695019, India. jayanthykuttickal@gmail.com.
Vijayakumar C NairPhotosciences and Photonics Section, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Trivandrum 695019, India. cvijayakumar@niist.res.in.ORCID 0000-0001-5347-6799

Funding

CSIR NWP-54 (TAPSUN)DST Ramanujan Fellowship SR/S2/RJN-133/2012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organic photovoltaic cells based on bulk-heterojunction architecture have been a topic of intense research for the past two decades. Recent reports on power conversion efficiency surpassing 10% suggest these devices are a viable low-cost choice for a range of applications where conventional silicon solar cells are not suitable. Further improvements in efficiency could be achieved with the enhanced interaction between the donor and acceptor components. Effective utilization of supramolecular interactions to tailor and manipulate the communication between the components in the blend is a good strategy towards this end. Literature reports suggest that the long-term stability of organic solar cells, a major hurdle for commercial applications, can also be partially addressed by generating stable supramolecular nanostructures. In this review, we have made an attempt to summarize advances in small molecule, oligomer and polymer based systems, wherein supramolecular interactions such as hydrogen-bonding, pi-pi stacking, and dipole-dipole are explored for realizing stable and efficient bulk-heterojunction solar cells.

Indexed as

bulk-heterojunctiondonor-acceptor systemsoligomersorganic photovoltaic cellspolymersself-assembly

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PMID30970792
PMCPMC6431919

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