Water-based Dye-sensitized Solar Cells: Interfacial Activation of TiO2Mesopores in Contact with Aqueous Electrolyte for Efficiency Development

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 1154-1155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takurou N. Murakami ◽  
Haruhisa Saito ◽  
Sadao Uegusa ◽  
Norimichi Kawashima ◽  
Tsutomu Miyasaka
2004 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 310-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haruhisa SAITO ◽  
Sadao UEGUSA ◽  
Takurou N. MURAKAMI ◽  
Norimichi KAWASHIMA ◽  
Tsutomu MIYASAKA

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 2150
Author(s):  
Ji-Hye Kim ◽  
Sung-Yoon Park ◽  
Dong-Hyuk Lim ◽  
So-Young Lim ◽  
Jonghoon Choi ◽  
...  

Organic solvents used for electrolytes of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are generally not only toxic and explosive but also prone to leakage due to volatility and low surface tension. The representative dyes of DSSCs are ruthenium-complex molecules, which are expensive and require a complicated synthesis process. In this paper, the eco-friendly DSSCs were presented based on water-based electrolytes and a commercially available organic dye. The effect of aging time after the device fabrication and the electrolyte composition on the photovoltaic performance of the eco-friendly DSSCs were investigated. Plasma treatment of TiO2 was adopted to improve the dye adsorption as well as the wettability of the water-based electrolytes on TiO2. It turned out that the plasma treatment was an effective way of improving the photovoltaic performance of the eco-friendly DSSCs by increasing the efficiency by 3.4 times. For more eco-friendly DSSCs, the organic-synthetic dye was replaced by chlorophyll extracted from spinach. With the plasma treatment, the efficiency of the eco-friendly DSSCs based on water-electrolytes and chlorophyll was comparable to those of the previously reported chlorophyll-based DSSCs with non-aqueous electrolytes.


2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 883-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Lupitskyy ◽  
Venkat Kalyan Vendra ◽  
Jacek Jasinski ◽  
Delaina A. Amos ◽  
Mahendra K. Sunkara ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1252-1258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sivasankar Nemala ◽  
Sateesh Prathapani ◽  
Purnendu Kartikay ◽  
Parag Bhargava ◽  
Sudhanshu Mallick ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (20) ◽  
pp. 17661-17667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiv Ramanujam Prabhakar ◽  
Nguyen Huu Loc ◽  
Mulmudi Hemant Kumar ◽  
Pablo P. Boix ◽  
Sun Juan ◽  
...  

ACS Nano ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 4050-4056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Se Jeong Park ◽  
Kichoen Yoo ◽  
Jae-Yup Kim ◽  
Jin Young Kim ◽  
Doh-Kwon Lee ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (24) ◽  
pp. 6659-6665 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanchun Xiang ◽  
Joshua Marlow ◽  
Peter Bäuerle ◽  
Udo Bach ◽  
Leone Spiccia

Using an aqueous electrolyte based on a tris(1,2-diaminoethane)cobalt(ii/iii) redox mediator in p-type dye-sensitized solar cells gives energy conversion efficiencies of up to 1.6% under AM 1.5 simulated sunlight.


2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (40) ◽  
pp. 4505-4509 ◽  
Author(s):  
ChunHung Law ◽  
Shehan C. Pathirana ◽  
Xaioe Li ◽  
Assaf Y. Anderson ◽  
Piers R. F. Barnes ◽  
...  

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