Preparation of functionalized and non-functionalized fullerene thin films on ITO glasses and the application to a counter electrode in a dye-sensitized solar cell

Investigation of low cost carbonaceous materials for application as counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells

“…Carbonaceous materials are quite attractive to replace platinum due to their high electronic conductivity, corrosion resistance towards I 2 , high reactivity for triiodide reduction and low cost [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. The lower catalytic activity of carbon compared to platinum can be compensated by increasing the active surface area of the electrode by using a porous electrode structure.…”

Nanostructured carbon electrodes

“…The use of fullerenes as electrode materials has been demonstrated in a range of applications such as the counter electrode in a dye-sensitized solar cell 30 and as electrodes in double-layer capacitors. 31 In addition, by lowering the potential of electroreduction of many different redox substrates and increasing the reaction rates, thus improving sensitivity and selectivity, fullerenes have proved useful as both redox catalysts and mediators in electrochemical catalysis, 32 electroanalytical investigation of pharmaceuticals, 33 and sensor applications.…”

AZO/Ag/AZO multilayer films prepared by DC magnetron sputtering for dye-sensitized solar cell application

“…Low sheet resistance, high transparency and wide direct band gap energy of materials would be required for application in electro-optical devices such as panel display, solar cell and dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) to be suitable for energy conversion [1][2][3][4]. The sheet resistance must low to be conductor-like is small enough to keep away from series resistance effects, the band gap energy of materials must large enough to be transparent to most of the corresponding solar spectra which can excite dye molecules on the excited state energy.…”