Sub-micrometer-sized Graphite As a Conducting and Catalytic Counter Electrode for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
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- Title
- Sub-micrometer-sized Graphite As a Conducting and Catalytic Counter Electrode for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
- Authors
- Veerappan, G; Bojan, K; Rhee, SW
- Date Issued
- 2011-03
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Abstract
- Sub-micrometer-sized colloidal graphite (CG) was tested as a conducting electrode to replace transparent conducting oxide (TCO) electrodes and as a catalytic material to replace platinum (Pt) for I-3(-) reduction in dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). CG paste was used to make a film via the doctor-blade process. The 9 mu m thick CG film showed a lower resistivity (7 Omega/square) than the widely used fluorine-doped tin oxide TCO (8-15 Omega/square). The catalytic activity of this graphite film was measured and compared with the corresponding properties of Pt. Cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy studies clearly showed a decrease in the charge transfer resistance with the increase in the thickness of the graphite layer from 3 to 9 mu m. Under 1 sun illumination (100 mW cm(-2), AM 1.5), DSSCs with submicrometer-sized graphite as a catalyst on fluorine-doped tin oxide TCO showed an energy conversion efficiency greater than 6.0%, comparable to the conversion efficiency of Pt. DSSCs with a graphite counter electrode (CE) on TCO-free bare glass showed an energy conversion efficiency greater than 5.0%, which demonstrated that the graphite layer could be used both as a conducting layer and as a catalytic layer.
- Keywords
- dye-sensitized solar cell; graphite layer; catalytic activity; counter electrode; conducting catalytic electrode; charge transfer resistance; LOW-COST; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; PERFORMANCE; POLY(3,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE); FILMS
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/17573
- DOI
- 10.1021/AM101204F
- ISSN
- 1944-8244
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, vol. 3, no. 3, page. 857 - 862, 2011-03
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