Carbon Nanotube Supported Thiospinel Quantum Dots As Counter Electrodes For Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
| Autor: | Faruk Ozel, Mahmut Kus, Adem Sarilmaz, Hasan Akyildiz, Abdurrahman Ozen, Sirin Siyahjani Gultekin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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CuCo2B4
Auxiliary electrode Materials science 020209 energy Performance 02 engineering and technology Carbon nanotube Cuco2s4 law.invention Nanocomposites law Thiospinels 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering General Materials Science CuNiCoS4 DSSC Films Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Energy conversion efficiency X-Ray Photoelectron Cobalt 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology CuCo5S8 Dye-sensitized solar cell Efficient Nanocrystal Chemical engineering Quantum dot Electrode Thermoelectric Properties Graphene 0210 nano-technology Ternary operation Pt-Free |
| Popis: | In the current study, sulfide based ternary and quaternary thiospinel nanocrystals were synthesized by using a simple hot injection method and used as catalyst instead of Pt in a DSSCs application for the first time. CuNiCoS4, CuCo5S8, and CuCo2S4 as thiospinel nanocrystals have been synthesized in crystalline structure, single phase, nearly stoichiometric, and having narrow size distribution below 10 nm. Comparative studies showed that, Carbon Nanotube (CNT)-CuCo2S4 based DSSCs yielded the most favorable results as a potential counter electrode showing very similar power conversion efficiency (eta = 4.99%) in comparison with Pt based DSSCs produced under identical conditions. Therefore, this study implies that the thiospinel nanocrystals and their CNT supported composites can be proposed as novel counter electrode materials for low-cost platinum-free solar cells. TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) [217M212]; TUBITAK [217M212] This work is supported by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) under project number 217M212. This paper was prepared from Ph.D. thesis of Adem SARILMAZ, which supported also by TUBITAK (217M212). |
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