Available photo-charging integrated device constructed with dye-sensitized solar cells and lithium-ion battery

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 791-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Di ◽  
Suping Jia ◽  
Xiaoshuang Yan ◽  
Junfei Liang ◽  
Shengliang Hu

The development of self-chargeable lithium-ion batteries is of great significance for expanding the usable range of the lithium-ion battery and it has received intensive attention from numerous researchers.

2017 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 761-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Hsiang Chiu ◽  
Masahiko Shibahara ◽  
Rui-Yu Huang ◽  
Motonori Watanabe ◽  
Zhong-Sheng Wang ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 6325-6335
Author(s):  
D. N. Sangeetha ◽  
Niveditha Hegde ◽  
Vidyashri Poojari ◽  
Dheeraj Devadiga ◽  
Y. N. Sudhakar ◽  
...  

Abstract The current era focuses not only on producing solar energy but also preserving it for future use. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) and supercapacitors (SC) are such energy-based devices. DSSCs capture the solar energy and SCs store this captured energy. A natural anthocyanin dye extracted from Garcinia indica (kokum fruit) was used in the DSSCs. SnO2, one of the promising electrode materials for DSSC, was synthesized via a microwave technique. Blend polymer electrolytes (BPE) were prepared through a solution casting technique. A polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) blend with varying concentrations of potassium iodide, along with iodine dopant, was prepared as a BPE electrolyte composition. The best of the PVA-PVP/KI composition was chosen using Nyquist plots of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Varying the temperature, the dielectric and conductivity study of the chosen composition was studied in detail. A fast/single-step synthesis technique, namely a laser-engraved approach, was used for few-layer graphene synthesis. This graphene serves as a common platform for the DSSC-SC integrated device: as a counter electrode in DSSC and graphene-graphene symmetric electrode in SC. A DSSC-SC integrated device was fabricated and characterized using various analytical and microscopy techniques. The integrated device showed a 0.42 fill factor and 0.56% efficiency. The discharge time for integrated DSSC-SC cells was found to be increased threefold. Graphical Abstract


2010 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoji Furukawa ◽  
Hiroshi Iino ◽  
Koudai Kukita ◽  
Kaoru Kaminosono

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