High performance dye-sensitized solar cells containing 1-methyl-3-propyl imidazolinium iodide-effect of additives and solvents

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Deep Eutectic Solvent Electrolytes: Insights from Experiment and Simulation

“…Previous studies have revealed that the impact of cation size has two competing influences: “electrode effect” and “electrolyte effect” in DSSCs. − Larger cations can provide more iodide ions due to the easy dissociation because of lower lattice energy in comparison with the iodide salts with smaller cations. The electrolyte effect refers to the influence on the conductivity in the electrolyte, and the electrode effect refers to the influence on the electron injection from the excited dye to the TiO 2 network.…”

The influence of tetrapod-like ZnO morphology and electrolytes on energy conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells

“…The additives in the electrolyte affected the energetic of the photoelectrode and the performance of the DSSCs [22][23][24][25][26]. However, most studies were related to TiO 2 DSSCs with few reports on ZnO DSSCs.…”

DDQ as an effective p-type dopant for the hole-transport material X1 and its application in stable solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

“…A low cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized mesoporous TiO 2 film called dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) was firstly reported by Grätzel and O' Regan in 1991 [1] . Since then, the effort and research on DSSCs have been activated [2][3][4][5][6] , to date, the overall power conversion efficiency of this type of solar cells with a co-sensitized technique was increased to 14.3% [7] , which is comparable to conventional silicon solar cell. However, liquid-state DSSCs still have critical challenges such as leakage, volatilization, and corrosion of the redox-active liquid electrolytes, constraining its wide application [8] .…”