The simple and easy way to manufacture counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells

Review on polymer electrolyte in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs)

“…Others have attempted to develop highly porous and large surface area nanostructure film consisting of semiconductor with a wide band gap as working electrode (Ghicov and Schmuki, 2009;Han et al, 2010;Mor et al, 2006). Several attempts have been made to reduce the resistivity while maintaining high level of transparency the transparent conducting oxide (TCO) film (Ali et al, 2011;Kim et al, 2013a) and other researchers focused on the development of counter electrode (Fang et al, 2004;Lan et al, 2010;Lin et al, 2011a;Olsen et al, 2000;Wei et al, 2007).…”

Improving catalyst stability in nano-structured solar and fuel cells

“…Different methods have been used to deposit Pt onto the CE substrate including thermally platinized [22][23][24], sputtering [22][23][24]26], chemical deposition [22,[28][29][30], electrochemical deposition [22,[30][31][32][33][34][35], spin coating [22,36,37], dip coating [22,38,39], screen printing [40,41] and spray coating utilizing electrostatic inkjet printing [42]. These deposition methods have some advantages and limitations.…”

“…using polymer as CE substrates. It was found that deposition method affects the performance of the Pt catalyst on CE substrate [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]. One of the prominent advantages of using Pt catalyst is that it makes it possible to achieve semi-transparent DSCs.…”

Modelling accelerated degradation test and shelf-life prediction of dye-sensitized solar cells with different types of solvents

“…The responses of cells were based on different electrolytes and aging test conditions. Three different kinds of electrolytes were used based on recipes investigated, one is a commonly used volatile organic solvent MPN (Lan et al, 2010), one is a nonvolatile organic solvent PEGDME, and one is an ionic liquid (EMITCB) Kuang et al, 2006. In the case of PEGDME-based DSSCs. Before the accelerated tests, we used fractional-factorial design to find an optimal composition on cell efficiency and cost.…”