Synthesis of carbon nanomaterials for dye-sensitized solar cells
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2015
Department
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Abstract
Summary: In this paper, it was demonstrated that Na2O can react with CO to produce carbon nanofibers at 500°C and carbon nanosheets at 550°C. Furthermore, the nanosheets exhibited excellent performance as a counter electrode for a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC), leading to a high power conversion efficiency of 7.57%. The efficiency is larger than that (4.72%) of a DSSC with the carbon nanofiber counter electrode and even comparable with that of an expensive Pt-based DSSC.
Publication Title
International Journal of Energy Research
Recommended Citation
Wei, W.,
&
Hu, Y.
(2015).
Synthesis of carbon nanomaterials for dye-sensitized solar cells.
International Journal of Energy Research,
39(6), 842-850.
http://doi.org/10.1002/er.3312
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