Facile Synthesis of Colloidal CuO Nanocrystals for Light-Harvesting Applications

الملخص EN

CuO is an earth-abundant, nontoxic, and low band-gap material; hence it is an attractive candidate for application in solar cells.

In this paper, a synthesis of CuO nanocrystals by a facile alcohothermal route is reported.

The nanocrystals are dispersible in a solvent mixture of methanol and chloroform, thus enabling the processing of CuO by solution.

A bilayer solar cell comprising of CuO nanocrystals and phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) achieved a power conversion efficiency of 0.04%, indicating the potential of this material for light-harvesting applications.