Carbon nanohorns as integrative materials for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Rubén D. Costa; Sebastian Feihl; Axel Kahnt; Sanjeev Gambhir; David L. Officer; Gordon G. Wallace; María Isabel Lucio; María Antonia Herrero; Ester Vázquez; Zois Syrgiannis; Maurizio Prato; Dirk M. Guldi

doi:10.1002/adma.201301527

Carbon nanohorns as integrative materials for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Rubén D. Costa, Sebastian Feihl, Axel Kahnt, Sanjeev Gambhir, David L. Officer, Gordon G. Wallace, María Isabel Lucio, María Antonia Herrero, Ester Vázquez, Zois Syrgiannis, Maurizio Prato, Dirk M. Guldi^*

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Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Different nanocarbons, that is, single-wall carbon nanotubes, graphene, single-wall carbon nanohorns (SWCNHs), and their respective oxidized analogs have been used to fabricate novel doped TiO₂ electrodes for DSSCs. Our results indicate that all of the nanocarbons significantly enhance the device characteristics when compared to standard TiO₂ electrodes. Overall, our most outstanding finding is that SWCNH derivatives are also a plausible material for developing highly-efficient DSSCs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6513-6518
Number of pages	6
Journal	Advanced Materials
Volume	25
Issue number	45
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201301527
Publication status	Published - 2013 Dec 3

Keywords

carbon-materials
dye-sensitized solar cells
nanocarbon/TiO composites
single-wall carbon nanohorns

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Materials Science(all)
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering

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