Author, Institution: Deimantė Vaitukaitytė, Kaunas University of Technology
Science area, field of science: Natural Sciences, Chemistry, N003
Scientific Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Vytautas Getautis (Kaunas University of Technology, Natural Sciences, Chemistry, N003)
Dissertation Defense Board of Chemistry Science Field:
Prof. Dr. Saulius Grigalevičius (Kaunas University of Technology, Natural Sciences, Chemistry, N003) – chairperson
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eglė Arbačiauskienė (Kaunas University of Technology, Natural Sciences, Chemistry, N003)
Prof. Dr. Vytas Martynaitis (Kaunas University of Technology, Natural Sciences, Chemistry, N003)
Prof. Dr. Edvinas Orentas (Vilnius University, Natural Sciences, Chemistry, N003)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jolanta Rousseau (Artois University, France, Technological Sciences, Chemical Engineering, T005)
Dissertation defense meeting will be at Rectorate Hall of Kaunas University of Technology (K. Donelaičio 73-402, Kaunas)
The doctoral dissertation is available at the library of Kaunas University of Technology (Gedimino 50, Kaunas)
Annotation: Rapidly increasing energy consumption is a global problem strongly contributing to the excessive use of fossil fuels and climate change. It has encouraged research for renewable energy sources, of which solar energy is the most reliable, sustainable, and long-term alternative. The most rapidly developing and one of the most promising technologies providing grid-free electricity is organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells, which performance already exceeds those of the commercialized silicon solar panels. However, reference materials used for the organic semiconductor layer of such devices are obtained during a complex synthetic procedure, which leads to a high product cost, hence limited possibilities for large-scale perovskite solar cell manufacturing. Therefore, it is important to find alternative synthetic schemes for hole transporting materials with a minimized number of steps and simple workup procedures. Four new enamine-based series of organic semiconductors were synthesized and investigated in this thesis. These hole transporting materials were obtained using a simple enamine synthesis chemistry, where metal catalysts and difficult purification procedures are not required, which results in a reduced final cost of the semiconductors. In addition, novel enamines were used for the fabrication of perovskite solar cells, which demonstrated high power conversion efficiency values, proving the potential of a novel class of compounds.
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September 29 d. 10:00
Rectorate Hall at Kaunas University of Technology (K. Donelaičio 73-402, Kaunas)
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