What is a good alternative for ethyl cellulose as an organic binder in solar cells?

19 March 2014 1 9K Report

In our lab testing, we found ethyl cellulose to have too high a viscosity. We are looking for a different polymer or some specific method for forming the organic vehicle that will yield good results.

Lijo Francis

Dear Bat,

You can have variety of inorganic and organic binders.

eg: Magnesium Aluminium silicates and Betonites (inorganic binders)

Apart from different cellulose materials you can use PVA, PEG, Acrylates, Paraffin etc as organic binders.

Regards

Lijo

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