Surface Modification of TiO2 Photoanodes with Fluorinated Self-Assembled Monolayers for Highly Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 46, 2015, Pages 25741-25747

  Wooh, Sanghyuk ^a,c   Kim, Tea Yon ^b,c   Song, Donghoon ^b   Lee, Yong Gun ^a   Lee, Tae Kyung ^b   Bergmann, Victor W ^c,e   Weber, Stefan A L ^c,e   Bisquert, Juan ^d,f   Kang, Yong Soo ^b   Char, Kookheon ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

dye aggregation; dye sensitized solar cell; electron recombination; fluorinated self assembled monolayer; surface engineering

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; CELL ENGINEERING; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; DYES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRONS; ENERGY CONVERSION; MONOLAYERS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE TREATMENT; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DYE AGGREGATION; ELECTRON RECOMBINATIONS; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; RECOMBINATION MODEL; SURFACE ENGINEERING;

SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

EID: 84948704764     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b07211     Document Type: Article

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