{"id":3619,"date":"2024-07-04T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T09:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:11:03","slug":"regression-model-using-organic-solar-cells-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/regression-model-using-organic-solar-cells-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Regression Model Using Organic Solar Cells Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher:<\/strong>\u00a0 Percival Shimange, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br \/><strong>Supervisor:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr R Maluta, University of Venda<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Percival Shimange - Regression Model Using Organic Solar Cells Materials.\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ShJOZooFmU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>Our environment\u2019s climate change has effects on energy consumption, generation, systems, and infrastructure. In the last decade, the demand for alternative energy conversion and storage devices has increased significantly.&nbsp; This project uses organic solar cells from the Harvard Clean Energy Project to predict energy band gaps using machine learning models to accelerate power supply. The HOMO-LUMO GAP was predicted using a machine learning regression model trained on HOMO, LUMO, power conversion efficiency, open circuit potential, and short circuit density.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1109\" height=\"814\" src=\"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Percival-Shimange.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Percival-Shimange.png 1109w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Percival-Shimange-600x440.png 600w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Percival-Shimange-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Percival-Shimange-1024x752.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Percival-Shimange-768x564.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1109px) 100vw, 1109px\" \/><\/figure><p><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher:\u00a0 Percival Shimange, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor:\u00a0Dr R Maluta, University of Venda Our environment\u2019s climate change has effects on energy consumption, generation, systems, and infrastructure. In the last decade, the demand for alternative energy conversion and storage devices has increased significantly.&nbsp; This project uses organic solar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}