Recent Development of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Flexible Substrates

Fan, Ke; Li, Renjie; Chen, Junnian; Shi, Wenye; Peng, Tianyou

doi:10.1166/sam.2013.1615

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“…Conductive glass accounts for a significant percentage of the cost of the device, and replacement of glass with a flexible substrate is expected to reduce the cost of materials. [224][225][226] Flexible solar cells require flexible anodes and flexible CEs, and thus demand flexible electrode substrates. Since the conductive glass substrate is rigid, the preparation of flexible counter electrodes only uses conductive polymers and metals with flexibility as substrate materials.…”

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Counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are regarded as prospective solar cells for the next generation of photovoltaic technologies and have become research hotspots in the PV field. The counter electrode, as a crucial component of DSSCs, collects electrons from the external circuit and catalyzes the redox reduction in the electrolyte, which has a significant influence on the photovoltaic performance, long-term stability and cost of the devices. Solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells, as well as the structure, principle, preparation and characterization of counter electrodes are mentioned in the introduction section. The next six sections discuss the counter electrodes based on transparency and flexibility, metals and alloys, carbon materials, conductive polymers, transition metal compounds, and hybrids, respectively. The special features and performance, advantages and disadvantages, preparation, characterization, mechanisms, important events and development histories of various counter electrodes are presented. In the eighth section, the development of counter electrodes is summarized with an outlook. This article panoramically reviews the counter electrodes in DSSCs, which is of great significance for enhancing the development levels of DSSCs and other photoelectrochemical devices.

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Counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

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“…A major hurdle lies in the mechanical flexibility. Although the flexible batteries have been materialized for years, their flexibility, in many cases, is restrained by electrode materials and conducting substrates . These flexible devices can only realize simple bending with limited radii and they are less able to sustain complex deformations like twisting, which render them inferior geometrical conformability to irregular epidermal surfaces.…”

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“…These flexible devices can only realize simple bending with limited radii and they are less able to sustain complex deformations like twisting, which render them inferior geometrical conformability to irregular epidermal surfaces. Another problem resides in their energy storage capacities . As for most flexible batteries listed in Table S1 (Supporting Information), they employed conventional cathode materials to store energy whereupon their energy densities are intrinsically limited by the theoretical ceilings, which implies that the power‐consuming wearable devices can hardly afford a satisfying longevity.…”

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A Cable‐Shaped Lithium Sulfur Battery

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“…[1][2][3] Functional hybrid materials composed of conjugated polymers and semiconductor quantum dots have gained increasing interests in the field of plastic electronics. [4][5][6] This is mainly due to the possibility of combining the facile solution processing capability of semiconducting polymers with the tuneable electronic properties, quantum size effect, high electron mobility and high environmental stability of semiconducting nanocrystals compared to commonly used fullerene acceptors. These types of hybrid materials are found to be attractive for field effect transistors, organic solar cells and photodetectors.…”

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The Role of Nanocrystal Size in Solution Processable CdSe:P3HT Hybrid Photovoltaic Devices

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2016

j nanosci nanotechnol

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Hybrid photovoltaic devices were fabricated using different sizes of CdSe quantum dots with different loading concentrations in P3HT matrix. CdSe quantum dots were synthesized chemically using olive oil as the capping agent, instead of toxic phosphine. The efficiency of hybrid poly-(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) P3HT:CdSe photovoltaic device was found to depend on the size as well as the loading of the nanocrystals. A maximum power conversion efficiency of -0.8% was achieved under AM1.5G solar illumination for the device with -5.3 nm CdSe nanocrystals. A hybrid photovoltaic device was demonstrated on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates paving the way to achieve flexible,transparent and printable devices.

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Recent Development of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Flexible Substrates

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Counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

A Cable‐Shaped Lithium Sulfur Battery

The Role of Nanocrystal Size in Solution Processable CdSe:P3HT Hybrid Photovoltaic Devices

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