Mesoporous Bi2S3 nanorods with graphene-assistance as low-cost counter-electrode materials in dye-sensitized solar cells

Nanoscale ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (23) ◽  
pp. 14433-14440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng-qi Guo ◽  
Tian-zeng Jing ◽  
Xiao Zhang ◽  
Xiao-bing Yang ◽  
Zhi-hao Yuan ◽  
...  

In this work, we report the synthesis of mesoporous Bi2S3 nanorods under hydrothermal conditions without additives, and investigated their catalytic activities as the CE in DSCs by I–V curves and tested conversion efficiency.

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (13) ◽  
pp. 10938-10942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Jin ◽  
Xiao Zhang ◽  
Mengmeng Zhen ◽  
Junfeng Wang

The MnO2 + 6 wt% rGO counter electrode exhibits a higher conversion efficiency than the Pt counter electrode.


Nanoscale ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 3283-3288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang Li ◽  
Xiaoshuang Chen ◽  
Guandao Gao

3D Bi2S3 microspheres compsed of a nanorod assembly grown along the (211) facet on graphene sheets were synthesized with obviously enhanced CEs.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (89) ◽  
pp. 72553-72561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiahao Guo ◽  
Suxia Liang ◽  
Yantao Shi ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
Ce Hao ◽  
...  

Three iron chalcogenides were successfully prepared and tested as CE materials in DSSCs. The devices using FeS2, FeSe2 and FeTe2 obtained high photovoltaic conversion efficiencies of 8.00, 7.92 and 7.21%, respectively, which were also confirmed by theoretical calculations.


2014 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 197-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Yang ◽  
Xueqin Zuo ◽  
Hongjing Xiao ◽  
Lei Zhou ◽  
Xiao Yang ◽  
...  

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