Overview
Project status: In progress
The focus of this project is to develop new heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials for use in conjugated-polymer composite photovoltaic cells. Synthesis of boron and of nitrogen doped carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by the US researchers will be complemented by ion-implantation post-synthesis of CNTs by the Australian team, to gain a thorough and detailed understanding of how the CNTs can act effectively as both an electron acceptor and charge transport medium in a conjugated polymer. Outcomes will include fundamental advances in our understanding of charge transport in the composite devices and prototype organic photovoltaic devices of improved efficiency.
- Grantor
- ARC International Linkage 2005
- Amount
- $115,000 AUD
- Research team
- QUT
- Organisational unit
- Lead unit Science and Engineering Faculty
- Start date
- 1st January 2005
- End date
- 1st January 2007
Professor John Bell
Associate Professor Eric Waclawik
Associate Professor Nunzio Motta
