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Record W4406314160 · doi:10.54254/2755-2721/2025.20130

Advances in Blade-Coated Organic Photovoltaics

2025· article· en· W4406314160 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueApplied and Computational Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMolecular Junctions and Nanostructures
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBlade (archaeology)PhotovoltaicsOrganic solar cellMaterials scienceNanotechnologyEnvironmental scienceEngineering physicsEngineeringMechanical engineeringComposite materialPhotovoltaic systemElectrical engineeringPolymer

Abstract

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Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are a type of solar cell technology that uses organic semiconducting materials to convert sunlight into electricity. Unlike traditional silicon-based solar cells, OPVs are lightweight, flexible, and can be fabricated using cost-effective solution-processing techniques such as blade coating, enabling large-area device fabrication and is compatible with roll-to-roll manufacturing, making it ideal for OPV production. However, key challenges for OPVs, such as achieving high efficiency and scalability, maintaining film uniformity, enhancing material stability, optimizing processing techniques, mitigating environmental and health impacts, improving charge transport and reducing recombination losses, and overcoming performance degradation in large-area production are still under investigation. Recent developments include high-efficiency copolymer donors, ternary additives for optimized morphology, and the integration of novel interlayers and electrodes. Scalable processes such as accelerated blade coating and green solvents like o-methylanisole are also explored, highlighting their role in enhancing efficiency, stability, and sustainability. Additionally, insights into nanoparticle additives, solvent engineering, and molecular design underscore the potential for blade-coated OPVs to achieve high performance while maintaining environmental compatibility. These advancements collectively address challenges in efficiency and scalability, paving the way for OPVs to meet industrial demands and contribute to a greener energy landscape.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.525
Threshold uncertainty score0.384

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.002
GPT teacher head0.170
Teacher spread0.169 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it