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Flexible and conductive cotton fabric counter electrode coated with graphene nanosheets for high efficiency dye sensitized solar cell

Title
Flexible and conductive cotton fabric counter electrode coated with graphene nanosheets for high efficiency dye sensitized solar cell
Author
정성훈
Keywords
Fabric; Graphene; Counter electrode; Electro conductivity; DSSC
Issue Date
2016-07
Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Citation
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES (2016.7), v. 319, Page. 90-98
Abstract
Textile fabric based electrodes due to their lightweight, flexibility and cost effectiveness, coupled with the ease of fabrication are recently given a huge attention as wearable energy sources. The current dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are based on Platinized-Fluorinated Tin oxide (Pt-FTO) glass electrode, which is not only expensive, but also rigid and heavyweight. In this work, a highly conductive-graphene coated cotton fabric (HC-GCF) is fabricated with a surface resistance of only 7 Omega sq(-1). HC-GCF is used as an efficient counter electrode (CE) in DSSC and the results are examined using photovoltaic and electrochemical analysis. HC-GCF counter electrode shows a negligible change of resistance to bending at various bending positions and is also found extremely resistant to electrolyte solution and washing with water. Cyclic voltammogram, Nyquist and the Tafel plots suggest an excellent electro catalytic activity (ECA) for the reduction of tri-iodide (I-3(-)) ions. Symmetrical cells prepared using HC-GCF, indicate a very low charge transfer resistance (R-CT) of only 1.2 Omega, which is nearly same to that of the Pt with 1.04 Omega. Furthermore, a high photovoltaic conversion efficiency (PCE) of 6.93% is achieved using HC-GCF counter electrode using polymer electrolyte. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
URI
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775316303664?via%3Dihubhttps://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/74507
ISSN
0378-7753; 1873-2755
DOI
10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.04.025
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING[S](공과대학) > ORGANIC AND NANO ENGINEERING(유기나노공학과) > Articles
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