Low-cost zinc-plated photoanode for fabric-type dye-sensitized solar cells

Kong, Ling‐Bin; Bao, Yunna; Guo, Wanwan; Cheng, Li; Du, Jun; Liu, Renlong; Wang, Yundong; Fan, Xing; Tao, Changyuan

doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2015.11.208

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“…The MnO 2 electrodes were prepared by mixing MnO 2 powder, carbon black, and polyvinylidene fluoride at a weight ratio of 7:2:1 in N -methyl pyrrolidone solvent, and then the slurry was coated onto MWCNT wire with 2.7 mg/cm of mass loading and 36 μm of MnO 2 thickness. The Zn electrodes were prepared by the electrodeposition method . The MWCNT wire was used as the substrate material, and the electrolyte used was a mixture of 100 g/L ZnSO 4 ·H 2 O, 20 g/L H 3 BO 3 , and 1 g/L polyacrylamide.…”

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Embroidering a Filmsy Photorechargeable Energy Fabric with Wide Weather Adaptability

Huang

Xiang

et al. 2019

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces

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To provide a light and breathable self-charging wearable power source adaptable for various weather conditions and body movements, couching embroidery has been proposed as an industrially scalable electrode-to-device assembling strategy, rather than a decorative textile pattern making process. Various types of cable electrodes and device units with a large size and shape difference were directly and reliably assembled on a light and soft tulle to form either photovoltaic or battery devices, which can be further integrated following any irregular pattern and any electrical connection design. Under sunlight, a transparent tulle as a glove or scarf can be charged up at a power of 10 W/m 2 , and then maintain stable power output in the dark for various weather and body moving conditions, including bending, twisting, hand-stretching, wind blowing, and water washing. Our approaches not only simplified the fabrication of integrated fabric-type energy devices but also improved the structural and functional design flexibility of a portable electronic power source, especially for summer wearing applications.

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Embroidering a Filmsy Photorechargeable Energy Fabric with Wide Weather Adaptability

Huang

Xiang

et al. 2019

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces

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“…There are numerous studies to replace ITO by using following materials: carbon-based materials such as graphene, carbon nanotubes (CNT) [10][11][12][38][39][40][41], conductive polymers like PEDOT:PSS [42][43][44][45][46], metal grids [47][48][49][50], nanowires [51][52][53][54], semi-transparent metal layers [55,56], metal oxides [57,58], and metal fabrics [24,[59][60][61][62][63][64]. In this study, stainless steel (SS) mesh fabrics were used as the bottom electrode which is generally used for filtering and screen printing purposes.…”

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A photovoltaic textile design with a stainless steel mesh fabric

Borazan

Bedeloğlu

Demir

2020

Journal of Industrial Textiles

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Solar energy is one of the most popular energy sources among the other renewable energies. Photovoltaic technology is a clean way to generate electricity from sunlight. Flexible photovoltaics enable portable electronic devices to power at off-grid conditions. Stainless steel mesh fabric was used as a substrate and electrode allowing the light to reach the photoactive layer. The photoactive layer and hole transport layer were deposited by the means of dip-coating like in the textile industry. The metal back electrode was evaporated in a thermal evaporator under vacuum. Promising results were obtained from photovoltaic measurements. About 0.69% power conversion efficiency was obtained from textile-based solar cells in this study. The textile-based metal fabric enables a flexible photovoltaic structure that can be integrated on non-planar surfaces to generate electricity, and also mesh structure allows the light to reach the photoactive layer.

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