High performance dye-sensitized solar cell by using porous polyaniline nanotubes as counter electrode

作者：Park Kyung Hee; Kim Seok Jae; Gomes Ruth; Bhaumik Asim^*

来源：Chemical Engineering Journal, 2015, 260: 393-398.

DOI：10.1016/j.cej.2014.08.105

• Dye-sensitized solar cells
• Nanotubes
• Polyaniline
• Counter electrode
• Charge transfer resistance

High efficiency and low cost dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted much attention very recently in the context of our need for an affordable renewable energy source. Inexpensive porous polyaniline nanotubes (PPNT-1) have been synthesized through a simple method via controlled polymerization of aniline with ammonium persulfate in the presence of concentrated orthophosphoric acid. PPNT-1 has been used as a substitute for platinum to construct the counter electrode (CE) in a DSSC, which showed lower charge transfer resistance and higher electrocatalytic activity for reduction of I-3(-) into I- than that of Pt electrode. PPNT-1-10T CE achieved a high conversion efficiency of 5.57%, matching the performance of otherwise identical DSSCs with Pt CE (5.20%).

• 出版日期2015-1-15