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Flexible, Light-Weight, Ultrastrong, and Semiconductive Carbon Nanotube Fibers for a Highly Efficient Solar Cell†

  1. Tao Chen1,2,3,‡,
  2. Shutao Wang1,4,‡,
  3. Zhibin Yang1,2,3,
  4. Quanyou Feng1,
  5. Xuemei Sun1,2,3,
  6. Dr. Li Li1,2,3,
  7. Prof. Zhong-Sheng Wang1,4,*,
  8. Prof. Huisheng Peng1,2,3,*

Article first published online: 18 JAN 2011

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201003870

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Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Volume 50, Issue 8, pages 1815–1819, February 18, 2011

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How to Cite

Chen, T., Wang, S., Yang, Z., Feng, Q., Sun, X., Li, L., Wang, Z.-S. and Peng, H. (2011), Flexible, Light-Weight, Ultrastrong, and Semiconductive Carbon Nanotube Fibers for a Highly Efficient Solar Cell. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50: 1815–1819. doi: 10.1002/anie.201003870

Author Information

  1. 1

    Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438 (China)

  2. 2

    Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers of Ministry of Education, Fudan University (China)

  3. 3

    Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University (China)

  4. 4

    Department of Chemistry, Fudan University (China)

  1. ‡

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

*Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438 (China)

  1. †

    We thank Dr. Q. Shen at SIMIT for the catalyst support. This work was sponsored by the Natural National Science Foundation of China (20904006, 20971025, 90922004), National Basic Research Program of China (2011CB933302, 2011CB932503), Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (1052nm01600, 09J1401100, 090J1401300, 10530705300), Shanghai Leading Academic discipline Project (B108), Jiangsu Major IAR Program (BY2010147), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-09-0318), and Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education of China, and Program for Key Discipline Creativity Talents at Fudan University.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 16 FEB 2011
  2. Article first published online: 18 JAN 2011
  3. Manuscript Revised: 22 NOV 2010
  4. Manuscript Received: 25 JUN 2010

Funded by

  • Natural National Science Foundation of China. Grant Numbers: 20904006, 20971025, 90922004
  • National Basic Research Program of China. Grant Numbers: 2011CB933302, 2011CB932503
  • Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality. Grant Numbers: 1052nm01600, 09J1401100, 090J1401300, 10530705300
  • Shanghai Leading Academic discipline Project. Grant Number: B108
  • Jiangsu Major IAR Program. Grant Number: BY2010147
  • Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University. Grant Number: NCET-09-0318
  • Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education of China
  • Program for Key Discipline Creativity Talents at Fudan University

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Keywords:

  • carbon;
  • nanotubes;
  • photophysics;
  • solar cells
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Tubes for sunlight: Solar cells with high short-circuit photocurrent, incident monochromatic photon-to-electron conversion efficiency, and power conversion efficiency have been made from flexible, light-weight, ultrastrong, and semiconductive nanotube fibers (see picture). The alignment of the nanotubes in the fiber is crucial for the excellent charge separation and charge transport properties observed.

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