The birth of the plastic solar cell
In 1995 Kees Hummelen, together with his colleagues Yu, Gao, Wudl and Heeger, who later became a Nobel Prize winner, developed a revolutionary way to make plastic solar cells. Their article in Science was picked up across the world and has been cited over 5100 times.
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