%0 Journal Article
%T Facile Synthesis of Colloidal CuO Nanocrystals for Light-Harvesting Applications
%A Yee-Fun Lim
%A Joshua J. Choi
%A Tobias Hanrath
%J Journal of Nanomaterials
%D 2012
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2012/393160
%X 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.
%U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jnm/2012/393160/