Modifying Structure and Properties of Carbon Nanotubes for Device Applications (MWN)

本项目的重点是开发用于共轭聚合物复合光伏电池的新型杂原子掺杂碳纳米管材料。在美国研究人员合成硼和氮掺杂碳纳米管（CNTs）的基础上，澳大利亚研究小组将在碳纳米管合成后进行离子注入，以全面而详细地了解碳纳米管如何在共轭聚合物中有效地充当电子受体和电荷传输介质。结果将包括我们对复合器件中电荷传输的理解的基本进展和提高效率的原型有机光伏器件。

The focus of this project is to develop new heteroatom-doped carbon nanotube materials for use in conjugated-polymer composite photovoltaic cells. Synthesis of boron and of nitrogen doped carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by the US researchers will be complemented by ion-implantation post-synthesis of CNTs by the Australian team, to gain a thorough and detailed understanding of how the CNTs can act effectively as both an electron acceptor and charge transport medium in a conjugated polymer. Outcomes will include fundamental advances in our understanding of charge transport in the composite devices and prototype organic photovoltaic devices of improved efficiency.