Development and Application of Polymers in Solar Cells and Supercapacitors
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 1798
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
High-performance and sustainable materials are in great demand for the fabrication and development of efficient solar cells and supercapacitors. While there are numerous efforts to improve their energy storage capacity, the construction of high-performance materials to power the electronics remains challenging. Polymers and polymer-based materials have been widely applied in various components of solar cells and supercapacitors, such as electrode materials, electrolyte materials, packaging materials, substrate materials, separator materials, etc. The development and application of polymers and polymer-based materials is a leap forward to enable the overall performance of solar cells and supercapacitors. However, the academic and commercial value of polymers applied in solar cells and supercapacitors need to be extensively reviewed for the desired performance and its future prospects.
This Special Issue will focus on the development and application of polymers in solar cells and supercapacitors. This issue will also cover the different mechanisms with a variety of polymer-based materials to attain the desired parameters for solar cells and supercapacitors. The advances in device/electrode design and synthesis procedures to describe charge storage mechanisms in polymer-based materials for solar cells and supercapacitors will also be included to comprehend the topic for a wide spectrum. We welcome submissions of original research, reviews, mini-reviews, and perspectives on themes including but not limited to:
- Polymer materials for solar cells and supercapacitors;
- Electrode design for solar cells and supercapacitors;
- Fabrication methods for solar cells and supercapacitors;
- Current trends in solar cells and supercapacitors;
- The integrated system of solar cells and supercapacitors.
Dr. Jun Huang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymer
- electrode materials
- supercapacitor
- wearable
- solar cell
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