Fully solution-processed transparent conducting oxide-free counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells: Spray-coated single-wall carbon nanotube thin films loaded with chemically-reduced platinum nanoparticles

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 13430-13437

  Kim, Sang Yong ^a   Kim, Yesel ^a   Lee, Kyung Moon ^a   Yoon, Woo Sug ^b   Lee, Ho Seok ^b   Lee, Jong Tae ^b   Kim, Seung Joo ^a   Ahn, Yeong Hwan ^a   Park, Ji Yong ^a   Lee, Tai Kyu ^b   Lee, Soonil ^a  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

^b NANOPAC   (South Korea)

Author keywords

chemical reduction; full solution processability; semitransparent DSSC; single wall carbon nanotube; transparent conducting electrode

Indexed keywords

CARBON FILMS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTUBES; PLATINUM; REDUCTION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDES; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES;

CHEMICAL REDUCTION; CHLOROPLATINIC ACID; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; PLATINUM NANO-PARTICLES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SEMITRANSPARENT DSSC; SOLUTION PROCESSABILITY; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING ELECTRODES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84906821060     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5019447     Document Type: Article

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