Synthesis of carbon nanomaterials for dye‐sensitized solar cells |
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| Authors: | Wei Wei Yun Hang Hu |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, it was demonstrated that Na2O can react with CO to produce carbon nanofibers at 500 °C and carbon nanosheets at 550 °C. Furthermore, the nanosheets exhibited excellent performance as a counter electrode for a dye‐sensitized solar cell (DSSC), leading to a high power conversion efficiency of 7.57%. The efficiency is larger than that (4.72%) of a DSSC with the carbon nanofiber counter electrode and even comparable with that of an expensive Pt‐based DSSC. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | carbon nanofiber carbon nanosheet dye‐sensitized solar cell counter electrode solar energy |
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