Study on Nature-inspired Fractal Design-based Flexible Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Fabricated using Additive Manufacturing

Towards metal free counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Syed Ghufran Hashmi Name of the doctoral dissertation Towards metal free counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Applied Physics Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 41/2014 Field of research Photovoltaics, Micro and nanotechnology, Renewable...

Flexible and platinum-free dye-sensitized solar cells with conducting-polymer-coated graphene counter electrodes.

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have emerged as a high-efficiency, low-cost alternative to solid-state silicon solar cells. Typically, DSSCs are composed of a mesoporous titania nanocrystal electrode on a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) substrate with ruthenium-based sensitizers on the titania nanocrystals, platinum on the TCO substrate as a counter electrode, and iodine/iodide electrolyt...

Counter Electrode for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Improved Photocurrent of a Poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-ClO4 /TiO2 Thin Filmmodifi ed Counter Electrode for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells Sho Sakurai, Yuka Kawamata, Masashi Takahashi and Koichi Kobayashi 2* 1 Department of Chemistry and Energy Engineering, Tokyo City University, Tokyo 158-8557, JAPAN 2 Research Center for Energy and Environmental Science, Advance Research Laboratory, Tokyo C...

Carbon nanofiber - based counter electrodes for low cost dye - sensitized 1 solar cells

Ruthenium based nanostructures driven by morphological controls as efficient counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells.

We introduce a facile approach to use ruthenium dioxide (RuO2) and ruthenium (Ru) nanostructures as effective counter electrodes instead of using platinum (Pt) for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). RuO2 and Ru nanostructure layers on the FTO glass can be readily prepared by a simple annealing process followed by the spin coating process of the mixture solution containing amorphous RuO2·xH2O p...