Graphene/carbon nanotubes composites as a counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells

T. Battumur; Sarfraj H. Mujawar; Q. T. Truong; Swapnil B. Ambade; Dai Soo Lee; Wonjoo Lee; Sung Hwan Han; Soo Hyoung Lee

doi:10.1016/j.cap.2011.04.028

Graphene/carbon nanotubes composites as a counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells

T. Battumur
, Sarfraj H. Mujawar
, Q. T. Truong
, Swapnil B. Ambade
, Dai Soo Lee
, Wonjoo Lee
, Sung Hwan Han
, Soo Hyoung Lee^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Division of Chemical Engineering

Jeonbuk National University
Hanyang University

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Abstract

As an alternative platinum counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), carbon materials based counter electrode were prepared using multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs)/graphene nano-sheets (GNS) composite by simple doctor blade method. We found that the photovoltaic performance was strongly influenced by the concentration of GNS in composite electrode. The composite electrode with 60% MWNTs and 40% GNS based DSSCs showed the maximum power conversion efficiency of 4.0% while sputter deposited platinum counter electrode based DSSCs showed a power conversion efficiency of 5.0%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e49-e53
Journal	Current Applied Physics
Volume	12
Issue number	SUPPL. 1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cap.2011.04.028
State	Published - 2012.09

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Keywords

Carbon nanotubes
Catalyst
Counter electrode
Dye-sensitized solar cells
Graphene

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

Materials Science
Physics & Astronomy

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Graphene/carbon nanotubes composites as a counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells

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