Improvement of mass transport of the [Co(bpy)3]II/IIIredox couple by controlling nanostructure of TiO2 films in dye-sensitized solar cells

Hui-Seon Kim; Soo-Byung Ko; In-Hyuk Jang; Nam-Gyu Park

doi:10.1039/C1CC14991A

You do not have JavaScript enabled. Please enable JavaScript to access the full features of the site or access our non-JavaScript page.

Improvement of mass transport of the [Co(bpy)₃]^II^/IIIredox couple by controlling nanostructure of TiO₂ films in dye-sensitized solar cells†

Hui-Seon Kim,^a Soo-Byung Ko,^a In-Hyuk Jang^a and Nam-Gyu Park*^a

Author affiliations

* Corresponding authors

^a School of Chemical Engineering and Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
E-mail: npark@skku.edu
Fax: +82 31 290 7241
Tel: + 82 31 290 7272

Abstract

Mass transport of the [Co(bpy)₃]^II^/IIIredox electrolyte is found to strongly depend on porosity and pore size of mesoporous TiO₂ films. Photocurrent density is improved by nearly two times with increasing the porosity from 0.52 to 0.59 despite 23% decreased dye loading. Optimized nanostructure sensitized with MK-2 dye shows efficiency of 5.5% at 1 sun.

Download options Please wait...

Supplementary files

Supplementary information PDF (669K)

Article information

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC14991A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 11 Aug 2011
Accepted: 02 Oct 2011
First published: 27 Oct 2011

Download Citation

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 12637-12639

Permissions

Request permissions

Improvement of mass transport of the [Co(bpy)₃]^II^/IIIredox couple by controlling nanostructure of TiO₂ films in dye-sensitized solar cells

H. Kim, S. Ko, I. Jang and N. Park, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 12637 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC14991A

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Social activity

Fetching data from CrossRef.
This may take some time to load.

Chemical Communications