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Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Advances, 61(5), p. 49614-49622, 2015

DOI: 10.1039/c5ra04657b

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One-dimension Graphene Nanoribbons Hybridized with Carbon Nanotubes as Cathode and Anode Interfacial Layers for High Performance Solar Cells

Journal article published in 2015 by Yong Zhang, Yawen Liu, Lie Chen, Yiwang Chen, Xiaotian Hu, Lin Zhang, Lin Hu
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Solution processible graphene oxide nanoribbions (GONRs) with continuously one-dimensional length and remaining carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has been synthesized by partially unzipping from multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). Such low-cost GONRs hybridized with CNTs (GONR/CNT) shows solution processibility and conductivity as well as tunable work function and multifunctional interfacial modification in the polymer solar cells (PSCs) due to well-defined nanoribbons containing CNTs with continuously one-dimensional length and promoting the charge transporting, different from the GONR unzipped from single-walled carbon nanotubes tending to form large amount of graphene oxide pieces. Incorporation of the GONR/CNT into the solution processed PSCs as electron transporting layer (ETL) and hole transporting layer (HTL) simultaneously delivers a high device performance with long-term stability. The results demonstrate that the multifunctional GONR/CNT unzipped from MWCNTs would be a promising interfacial materials for solution processed high performance PSCs.