Electrical and optical properties of hybrid polymer solar cells incorporating Au and CuO nanoparticles

Wanninayake, Aruna P.; Li, Shengyi; Church, Benjamin C.; Abu‐Zahra, Nidal

doi:10.3934/matersci.2016.1.35

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“…Furthermore, it is very sensitive to prokaryotes and eukaryotes compared to other metal nanoparticles (Tri et al, 2019). The copper oxide nanostructures have a wide range of applications including optical and electrical devices (Aruna et al, 2015), sensors (Wang et al, 2016), anode material for lithium-ion batteries (Wang et al, 2011), catalysis (Zaman et al, 2012, nanocomposite films (Shankar et al, 2017), solar cells (Sharma et al, 2015) and antibacterial materials (Nethravathi et al, 2015).…”

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Effect of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles on Prostate Cancer PC3 Cells

AKSEL,

KARAAĞAÇ,

KAYA

et al. 2023

International Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

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Copper oxide (CuO NPs) nanoparticles were synthesized by green synthesis and characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy, FT-IR spectroscopy, SEM and EDX analysis. The shape of the CuO nanoparticles obtained is approximately spherical and their particle sizes range from 40 to 85 nm. According to the experimental results, two peaks at 305 and 318 nm in the 270-400 nm range in the UV-Vis absorption spectrum and one peak at 536 cm-1 in the FT-IR spectrum confirm the presence of copper oxide nanoparticles. In addition, the presence of biomolecules in aesculus hippocastanum(horse chestnut) extract on the surface of the copper oxide nanoparticles synthesized by green synthesis was determined by the peaks seen in the range of 3300 cm-1 - 1000 cm-1 in the FTIR spectrum. The images, shape and size of the copper oxide nanoparticles were determined by SEM, and the weight percent of the elements were determined by EDX. PC3 prostate cell lines were used in the study. After measuring the cytotoxic effect of the agents used in the study on prostate cancer cells, the apoptotic effect of this effect was determined by Hoechst/propidium iodide (HOPI) staining. Graphpad prism program was used to compare all parameters between groups, and "one-way analysis of variance" (one-way ANOVA) method and dunnet's test were applied to test whether there was any difference between at least two groups. It has been determined that the drug obtained from copper oxide nanoparticles has a cytotoxic effect on PC3 prostate cancer cells and this effect occurs through the apoptosis pathway.

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Effect of Copper Oxide Nanoparticles on Prostate Cancer PC3 Cells

AKSEL,

KARAAĞAÇ,

KAYA

et al. 2023

International Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

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“…In our previously reported work, copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) were successfully incorporated into the P3HT/ PC70BM active layer. The PCE was increased in single layer PSCs due to enhanced carrier generation ability of P3HT/PCBM/CuO NPs thin films [18,19]. Therefore, CuO NPs could be used to increase the PCE in double junction solar cell devices as well.…”

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CuO NPs incorporated single and double junction polymer solar cells

Wanninayake

Church

Abu‐Zahra

2018

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Multi-junction architecture is an attractive method to overcome the efficiency limit of single-junction photovoltaic solar cells. Series-connected multi-junction polymer solar cells (PSCs) have attracted much attention during the past decade. In this study, single- and double-layer polymer solar cells were fabricated incorporating copper oxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles (CuO and ZnO NPs) in the active layers. Thermal annealing treatment was applied to the single and double junction devices at 200oC to optimize the nanoscale morphology. The single layer device produced 2.963% power conversion efficiency and it was reduced to 1.102% in the double junction solar cell. However, the enhanced morphological and optoelectronic properties attained by applying thermal annealing, slightly increased the power conversion efficiency. Meanwhile, the external quantum efficiency (EQE) increased from 32.4% to 37%, showing an enhancement of 12.4% with the thermal annealing treatment.

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