High-efficiency counter electrodes using graphene hybrid with a macrocyclic nickel complex for dye-sensitized solar cells

作者：Yu Yuan Hsiang; Chi Wen Feng; Huang Wei Chih; Wang Wun Shiuan; Shih Chun Jyun; Tsai Chih Hung

来源：Organic Electronics, 2016, 31: 207-216.

DOI：10.1016/j.orgel.2016.01.038

• Dye-sensitized solar cells
• Counter electrode
• Nanocomposites
• Graphene
• Macrocyclic nickel complex

Nanocomposites using graphene hybrid with a fully conjugated macrocyclic nickel complex were successfully prepared via a simple redox reaction of graphene oxide and an octaaza-bis-alpha-diimine macrocyclic nickel complex. The dye-sensitized solar cells fabricated with the graphene/macrocyclic nickel complex-based nanocomposite counter electrode reached a power conversion efficiency of 8.30%, which was higher than that of the platinum counter electrode under the same conditions. The nanocomposites exhibited excellent electrocatalytic performance for the reduction of triiodide due to the well-distributed catalytic nickel center on the graphene surface.

• 出版日期2016-4
• 单位东华大学