Publications by authors named "Edilene A Silva"
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- Fullerene-based polymers and oligomers, especially when paired with non-fullerene acceptors, exhibit high efficiencies in organic photovoltaic devices and also show potential in enhancing anti-cancer and anti-viral treatments.
- This study focuses on preparing and characterizing Langmuir and Langmuir-Schaefer films made from PCBM-based materials, investigating how different solvents (like chloroform, toluene, and xylene) affect their morphology.
- The research utilized various characterization techniques, including Brewster's angle microscopy and atomic force microscopy, showing that chloroform reduces film roughness and improves ordering compared to films made with xylene.
Low-bandgap polymers are widely used as p-type components in photoactive layers of organic solar cells, due to their ability to capture a large portion of the solar spectrum. The comprehension of their supramolecular assembly is crucial in achieving high-performance organic electronic devices. Here we synthezed two exemplar low-bandgap cyclopentadithiophene (CPDT):diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based polymers, with either a twelve carbon (C12) or a tri etyleneglycol (TEG) side chains on the DPP units (respectively denoted PCPDTDPP_C12 and PCPDTDPP_TEG).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolythiophene thin films are widely studied for applications in organic electronics. However, some comparisons are still missing, regarding distinct deposition techniques and regioregularity. Here regioregular and regiorandom alkyl-substituted polythiophene derivatives (P3ATs) were deposited on solid substrates using both Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) and Langmuir-Schaefer (LS) techniques.
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