Week 5 in Review
Week 5 was a doozy. We spent the entire week doing our entire project. As of Friday the week before, we decided we would turn 180 degrees and switch projects because the PLD is down. We have been creating an Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) polymer since then. The steps will be clearly delineated in our poster and our efficiency ended up being 0.2% at the end of the week. All in all, not bad considering Bakhtyur started with 10^-5 efficiency and is only now up to 3.5%. He is perfecting his technique and hopes to consistently get around 6% (with the maximum for a OPV) at this point being nearly 7%.
At this point, we have all of our data and a final product, so the only thing left will be to format our graphs and get them on the poster. After that, we will have our talk ready to go and start working on our lessons (incorporating some of these concepts) for the school year. Unfortunately, a lot of the time we spent on our poster and talk previously is for naught because it focused on the PLD, hydrogen energy, and TiO2…none of which are part of our revised project. Still, learning another technique has been fascinating and I was happy to broaden my horizons even more.
