TY - JOUR
A2 - El-Shafei, Ahmed
AU - Karim, Mohammad Rezaul
AU - Islam, Ashraful
AU - Singh, Surya Prakash
AU - Han, Liyuan
PY - 2011
DA - 2011/08/14
TI - Quasi Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Incorporating Highly Conducting Polythiophene-Coated Carbon Nanotube Composites in Ionic Liquid
SP - 357974
VL - 2011
AB - Conducting polythiophene (PTh) composites with the host filler multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT) have been used, for the first time, in the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). A quasi solid-state DSCs with the hybrid MWNT-PTh composites, an ionic liquid of 1-methyl-3-propyl imidazolium iodide (PMII), was placed between the dye-sensitized porous TiO2 and the Pt counter electrode without adding iodine and higher cell efficiency (4.76%) was achieved, as compared to that containing bare PMII (0.29%). The MWNT-PTh nanoparticles are exploited as the extended electron transfer materials and serve simultaneously as catalyst for the electrochemical reduction of I3 −.
SN - 1687-563X
UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/357974
DO - 10.1155/2011/357974
JF - Advances in OptoElectronics
PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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