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    Demonstration of the portability of porous microstructure architecture to indium-doped ZnO electron selective layer for enhanced light scattering in inverted organic photovoltaics
    (Springer New York LLC, 2016) Nirmal A.; Kyaw A.K.K.; Sun, X.; Demir, Hilmi Volkan
    We propose and demonstrate the incorporation of porous microstructures on indium-doped zinc oxide (IZO) electron selective layer in inverted organic photovoltaics (OPV). Porosity was induced in the IZO layer with the addition of polyethylene glycol (PEG) organic template at the optimal IZO/PEG ratio of 4:1. When compared to the OPV device with non-porous IZO, the device employing porous IZO showed a 16 % improvement in current density and a 13 % improvement in efficiency. This is primarily due to the increased light scattering as substantiated by the haze factor studies. This PEG assisted method of introducing microporous structure is therefore shown to be compatible with the doped interlayer and is thus a portable method of enhancing light scattering in OPV devices.
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    Electrospun porous cellulose acetate fibers from volatile solvent mixture
    (Elsevier, 2011) Çelebioğlu, Aslı; Uyar, Tamer
    Electrospun porous cellulose acetate (CA) fibers were produced from highly volatile binary solvent system; dichloromethane(DCM)/acetone. The morphology and porous structure of CA fibers were highly dependent on DCM/acetone ratio and the concentration of the solutions. Ribbon-like porous CA fibers were obtained from 5% (w/v) to 10% (w/v) polymer solutions depending on the DCM/acetone ratio; 1/1, 2/1, 3/1 and 9/1 (v/v). Using higher DCM/acetone ratio resulted in bead-free fibers from less concentrated polymer solutions due to the high viscosity of the solutions, in addition, more porous CA fibers were obtained owing to the high volatility of DCM.