Highly porous nanostructured polyaniline/carbon nanodots as efficient counter electrodes for Pt-free dye-sensitized solar cells

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (37) ◽  
pp. 19018-19026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kisu Lee ◽  
Sunghun Cho ◽  
Minkyu Kim ◽  
Jihoo Kim ◽  
Jaehoon Ryu ◽  
...  

A novel method to synthesize highly porous polyaniline (PANI) using carbon nanodots (CNDs) is reported. PANI-CND nanocomposite films exhibited high electrical conductivity (774 S cm−1) and excellent performance as counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells (η = 7.45%).

Author(s):  
Christian Abel Cruz-Gutiérrez ◽  
Rosa María Félix-Navarro ◽  
Julio Cesar Calva-Yañez ◽  
Carolina Silva-Carrillo ◽  
Shu Wai Lin-Ho ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (33) ◽  
pp. 17595-17602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zico Alaia Akbar ◽  
Jae-Seon Lee ◽  
Jinhyeon Kang ◽  
Han-Ik Joh ◽  
Sungho Lee ◽  
...  

Dye-sensitized solar cells were fabricated using novel carbon nanosheets synthesized from polymeric sources as the Pt and FTO-free counter electrodes.


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