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    Power up: New Polymer Property could Boost Accessible Solar Power

    June 7, 2022, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    Organic solar cells like the one pictured are emerging as a viable solution to meet the nation’s growing energy demand. Credit: Azzaya Khasbaatar, a graduate student in the Diao Group.

    Lightweight as a window cling and replicable as a newspaper, organic solar cells are emerging as a viable solution for the nation’s growing energy demand.

    Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are the first to observe a biological property called chirality emerging in achiral conjugated polymers, which are used to design flexible solar cells. Their discovery could help enhance the cells’ charge capacity and increase access to affordable renewable energy.

    DNA’s coiled architecture is recognizable to many as a helix...

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    Scientists have invented a way to view and create ‘an Electron Superhighway’ in an Organic Semiconductor

    September 15, 2015, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    University of Vermont scientists have invented a new way to create what they are calling an electron superhighway in an organic semiconductor that promises to allow electrons to flow faster and farther -- aiding the hunt for flexible electronics, organic solar cells, and other low-cost alternatives to silicon. To explore these organic materials, UVM graduate students (from left) Naveen Rawat and Lane Manning, and professors Randy Headrick and Madalina Furis, deployed this table-top scanning laser microscope. Their latest finding is reported in the journal Nature Communications -- and may, someday not too far off, let you roll up your computer like a piece of paper. Credit: Joshua Brown, UVM

    University of Vermont scientists have invented a new way to create what they are calling an electron superhighway in an organic semiconductor that promises to allow electrons to flow faster and farther — aiding the hunt for flexible electronics, organic solar cells, and other low-cost alternatives to silicon. To explore these organic materials, UVM graduate students (from left) Naveen Rawat and Lane Manning, and professors Randy Headrick and Madalina Furis, deployed this table-top scanning laser microscope. Their latest finding is reported in the journal Nature Communications — and may, someday not too far off, let you roll up your computer like a piece of paper. Credit: Joshua Brown, UVM

    This approach promises to allow electrons to flow faster and farther – aiding the hunt for flexible el...

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