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Chemical Communications

Great improvement of catalytic activity of oxide counter electrodes fabricated in N2 atmosphere for dye-sensitized solar cells†

Mingxing Wu,*ab   Xiao Lin,bc   Wei Guo,b   Yudi Wang,b   Lingling Chu,b   Tingli Ma*b  and  Kezhong Wu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and Material Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nano-materials of Hebei Province, Hebei Normal University, No. 20 Rd. East of 2nd Ring South, Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, China
E-mail: mingxingwu_paper@163.com

b State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China
E-mail: tinglima@dlut.edu.cn

c China Gateway Technology Development Co, Ltd., Shangshai City, China

Abstract

The dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) using SnO2 and Nb2O5 counter electrodes (CEs) prepared in N2 atmosphere yielded power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of 6.09% and 4.65%, much higher than the PCE values (1.84%, 0.97%) of the DSCs using the same SnO2 and Nb2O5 CEs prepared in air.

Graphical abstract: Great improvement of catalytic activity of oxide counter electrodes fabricated in N2 atmosphere for dye-sensitized solar cells

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC37360B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Sep 2012
Accepted
26 Oct 2012
First published
29 Oct 2012

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 1058-1060

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Great improvement of catalytic activity of oxide counter electrodes fabricated in N2 atmosphere for dye-sensitized solar cells

M. Wu, X. Lin, W. Guo, Y. Wang, L. Chu, T. Ma and K. Wu, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 1058 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37360B

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