Carbon nanostructured fibers as counter electrodes in wire-shaped dye-sensitized solar cells

S Pan, Z Yang, P Chen, X Fang, G Guan…

Index: Pan, Shaowu; Yang, Zhibin; Li, Houpu; Qiu, Longbin; Sun, Hao; Peng, Huisheng Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013 , vol. 135, # 29 p. 10622 - 10625

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Abstract

Carbon nanotubes (CNT), core–sheath CNT/reduced graphene oxide nanoribbon (RGONR), CNT/RGO composite, and RGO fibers have been compared as counter electrodes to fabricate novel dye-sensitized solar cells. For the I–/I3–electrolyte, the core– sheath CNT/RGONR fiber shows the best catalytic activity, which in turn produces the highest energy conversion efficiency of 5.64%. In contrast, for the organic T–/T2 electrolyte ...