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Can anyone comment in a knowledgeable way about the chemicals involved? 1. tungsten diselenide 2. an ionic fluid called ethyl-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluorobo
by fernly 10y ago
Can anyone comment in a knowledgeable way about the chemicals involved?
1. tungsten diselenide
2. an ionic fluid called ethyl-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate
Just offhand I see selenium in #1, and fluorine and boron going into #2. There's some expense there, and some handling and exposure dangers. If you have a lot of these cells around, are there public health dangers either in handling or in disposing/recycling old ones?
- selimthegrim 10y agoWS2 should be a relatively inert wafer/flake, the desirable property is the so-called van Hove singularity in the electronic density of states that makes it ideal for solar cells.