Materials

Research Reveals Thermal Instability of Solar Cells but Offers a Bright Path Forward

The cover illustration shows the surface of the halide perovskite structure being modified by a large organic cation. The cation diffuses through the thin film to reconstruct the surface structure. Credit: Advanced Materials
Feb 09, 2023 - Atlanta, GA
Their work reveals what goes wrong within the cells’ interface layers.

Going Back to Basics Yields a Printable, Transparent Plastic That’s Highly Conductive

A strip of flexible, transparent, and highly conductive plastic film called PEDOT(OH) created by Georgia Tech chemists and engineers. (Photos Courtesy: James Ponder)
Dec 01, 2022 - Atlanta, GA
Chemists and engineers collaborate on process that washes away nonconductive side chains from a robust polymer backbone to create a powerful conductive plastic.

Finding Key to Low-cost, Fast Production of Solid-state Batteries for EVs

A new Georgia Tech manufacturing process could enable battery makers to produce lighter, safer, and more energy-dense batteries. (Photo credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech)
Mar 08, 2021 - Atlanta, GA
New technique could allow EV industry to make Li-ion batteries more safely with 100% solid-state nonflammable ceramic rather than liquid electrolytes.
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