A novel quasi-solid state dye-sensitized solar cell fabricated using a multifunctional network polymer membrane electrolyte

Electrodes/Electrolyte Interfaces in the Presence of a Surface‐Modified Photopolymer Electrolyte: Application in Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

“…This finding is consistent with those usually reported in the literature for liquid lab-scale cells, [38] and also confirms the tendency of liquid electrolytes not to provide stable long-term performance. In contrast, the BEMA:PEGMA-based DSSC presented in this work showed only a 16 % decay of the initial efficiency, thus demonstrating that the UV-produced polymeric network is able to trap and effectively retain the solvated redox mediator.…”

Review on the recent progress of carbon counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells

“…Quite a few challenges still remain before its commercialization, including cost, performance and 22 long-term stability. So far, various strategies are carried out to develop the low-cost, stable, and particularly highly efficient materials for different parts of DSSC, including the molecular engineering of novel dye sensitizers [126][127][128][129][130], the development of new redox shuttles [131][132][133][134][135][136], the construction of porous TiO 2 [137][138][139][140], and the search for low-cost, highly stable and catalytic CE materials [22,41,58,141]. Among the strategies for exploring new Pt-free CE materials, the family of carbon CE materials has become one of hot issues in photovoltaic research due to their low cost, anti-corrosion and high catalytic activity.…”

From seaweeds to biopolymeric electrolytes for third generation solar cells: An intriguing approach

“…Anyway, if compared to those reported in the literature [48], these conductivity values can ensure the well-functioning of DSSCs assembled with the proposed solid polymer electrolytes, for whichin absence of solvents -the effective charge transport can be rationalized by a Grotthuss-type electron exchange mechanism (polyiodide bond exchange mechanism) [49].…”