Graphene oxide organogel electrolyte for quasi solid dye sensitized solar cells

Jenny Gun; Sneha A. Kulkarni; Wang Xiu; Sudip K. Batabyal; Sergey Sladkevich; Petr V. Prikhodchenko; Vitaly Gutkin; Ovadia Lev

doi:10.1016/j.elecom.2012.03.025

Graphene oxide organogel electrolyte for quasi solid dye sensitized solar cells

Jenny Gun, Sneha A. Kulkarni, Wang Xiu, Sudip K. Batabyal^*, Sergey Sladkevich, Petr V. Prikhodchenko, Vitaly Gutkin, Ovadia Lev

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Abstract

Low concentration, as low as 0.4 wt.% graphene oxide organogels is reported for different organic solvents. The gelation of organic solvents at exceedingly low concentrations opens the door for the implementation of graphene oxides based electrolytes in various electrochemical applications. Here we demonstrate the use of acetonitrile-graphene oxide (GO) gel containing iodide/triiodide as a quasi-solid electrolyte for dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs). Electrochemical impedance studies reveal that the mass transfer barrier is not adversely affected by the presence of the minute amount of GO gel former. The achieved energy conversion efficiency (η) for the device without GO and with 1% GO gel electrolytes is 6.9% and 7.5% respectively under one sun illumination.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	108-110
Number of pages	3
Journal	Electrochemistry Communications
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2012.03.025
State	Published - Jun 2012

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Funding Information:
This research is supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation under CREATE program: Nanomaterials for Energy and Water Management. We thank the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants 11-03-00551 and 11-03-92478 ), the Council on Grants of the President of the Russian Federation ( NSh-8503.2010.3 ), the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Federal Target program “Scientific and Pedagogical Staff of Innovating Russia 2009–2013”, State Contract No. 16.740.11.0428 ). The authors thank Prof Subodh G. Mhaisalkar for scientific discussions and for lab facilities.

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Dye-sensitized solar cell
Graphene oxide
Organogel
Quasi-solid state electrolyte

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