A stable gel electrolyte based on poly butyl acrylate (PBA)-co-poly acrylonitrile (PAN) for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

Deb Kumar Shah; You Hyun Son; Ha Ryeon Lee; M. Shaheer Akhtar; Chong Yeal Kim; O. Bong Yang

doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2020.137756

A stable gel electrolyte based on poly butyl acrylate (PBA)-co-poly acrylonitrile (PAN) for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

Deb Kumar Shah
, You Hyun Son
, Ha Ryeon Lee
, M. Shaheer Akhtar^*
, Chong Yeal Kim
, O. Bong Yang

^*Corresponding author for this work

Jeonbuk National University

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Abstract

This work deals the preparation of a new polymer gel electrolyte using an efficient poly (acrylonitrile)-co-poly (butyl acrylate) (PAN-co-PBA) for solid-state DSSCs. Prepared PAN-co-PBA exhibited the superabsorbent behavior as seen the carboxylate group in copolymer. An excellent gelation with iodide couple and high ionic conductivity of 3.86 mS/cm were recorded for PAN-co-PBA gel electrolyte. Fabricated DSSC with 7% PAN-co-PBA attained the highest overall conversion efficiency of ~5.23% along with high J_SC = 13.16 mA/cm², V_OC = 0.646 V and FF = 0.62. Improved DSSC performance might be related to excellent gelation and high ionic conductivity of PAN-co-PBA gel electrolyte, resulting in improving interfacial contact and pore filling.

Original language	English
Article number	137756
Journal	Chemical Physics Letters
Volume	754
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2020.137756
State	Published - 2020.09

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Keywords

Co-polymer
Dye sensitized solar cell
Ionic conductivity
Photocurrent density
Polymer electrolytes

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Engineering - Petroleum
Chemistry
Physics & Astronomy

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A stable gel electrolyte based on poly butyl acrylate (PBA)-co-poly acrylonitrile (PAN) for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

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