APPLICATIONS OF CARBON NANOMATERIALS BASED HYBRID STRUCTURES IN DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS

摘要

One of the greatest challenges in the twenty-first century isnundoubtedly the energy conversion and storage.1 In response to thenurgent renewable energy needs of modern society and emergingnenvironmental concerns, it is very important to develop novelninexpensive and environmentally friendly energy conversion andnstorage systems. Mesoscopic dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) havenrecently emerged as a credible alternative to solid-state p-n junctionnphotovoltaic devices, primarily due to the greatest potential tongenerate electricity on resource-abundant raw materials and energysavingndevice processing.2 Currently, certified power conversionnefficiency (PCE) up to 11% has been achieved in conjunction with anpolypyridyl ruthenium complexes based sensitizer and an organicnsolvent containing I−/I3− redox couple.3