HIGH PERFORMANCE PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS FUNCTIONALISED WITH LUMINESCENT QUANTUM DOTS

Operation co-funded by EU cohesion policy (European Social Fund (ESF)) under the programme Veneto - ESF (2014IT05SFOP012), managing authority: Area Capitale Umano, Cultura e Programmazione Comunitaria. The source names no beneficiary for this operation. Location: Province of Verona (NUTS ITH31); Italy. Budget: total eligible expenditure EUR 76,050; EU co-financing EUR 38,025 (co-financing rate 50%), as stated by the source. Runs 2020-03-10 to n/a. Source: Kohesio, EU cohesion policy projects managed by national and regional authorities (not CORDIS). Summary from Kohesio (English machine translation by the source): THE PROJECT AIMS AT THE REALISATION OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS MADE OF POLYMERS FUNCTIONALISED WITH NANOPARTICLES TO IMPROVE THE ABSORPTION OF LIGHT RADIATION, NOT ONLY IN THE REGION OF THE VISIBLE BUT ALSO IN THE ULTRAVIOLET AND CONVERT IT INTO LESS ENERGY RADIATION (DOWNCONVERSION/DOWNSHIFTING), USABLE IN COMMERCIAL SOLAR PANELS. BOTH INORGANIC (QUANTUM DOTS) FLUORESCENT NANOPARTICLES CONSISTING OF NON-TOXIC AND ORGANIC CARBON-BASED ELEMENTS (CARBON DOTS) WILL BE USED. THESE TYPES OF NANOPARTICLES HAVE VERY HIGH LIGHT EFFICIENCIES (CLOSE TO 90 %), A REMARKABLE FOTOSTABILITY, SIMPLICITY AND VERSATILITY OF SYNTHESIS AND POTENTIALLY VERY LOW COSTS FOR AN INDUSTRIAL PREPARATION. THE LUMINESCENT NANOMATERIALS, SUITABLY OPTIMISED, WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO DIFFERENT ORGANIC POLYMER MATRICES: IN THE CASE OF A PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATION, FOR EXAMPLE, TRANSPARENT POLYMERS WITH EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE WILL BE USED

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Source: Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects), European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO). Retrieved 2026-10-21. Licence: CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects). Selected metadata, adapted presentation; the publisher's record is authoritative. No endorsement by the source is implied. Licence: public domain dedication (CC0 1.0).

AI-assisted summary: The project focuses on creating composite materials from polymers and nanoparticles to enhance light absorption for commercial solar panels. It is co-funded by the EU with a budget of EUR 76,050, located in the Province of Verona, Italy. Suggested technology pillar: enabling. Generated by AI from the public source text; it may contain errors and the original source is authoritative.