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Erschienen in: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 2/2017

03.09.2016

Highly improved performances of DSSC prepared with crystalline type CoS2 dispersed on graphene

verfasst von: Lei Zhu, Kwang-Youn Cho, Won-Chun Oh

Erschienen in: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics | Ausgabe 2/2017

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Abstract

In the current study, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and crystalline CoS2 were combined to create nanoscale counter electrodes via a simple hydrothermal method. When the resulting CoS2/rGO was evaluated for use as a counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells, it exhibited excellent electrochemical activity toward the reduction of I3 , which was a consequence of the increased number of active catalytic sites in CoS2/rGO and the high conductivity of graphene. The CoS2/rGO synthesis process is simple and scalable, and can easily be adapted for large-scale electrocatalytic film fabrication for several other electrochemical energy harvesting and storage applications.

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Metadaten
Titel
Highly improved performances of DSSC prepared with crystalline type CoS2 dispersed on graphene
verfasst von
Lei Zhu
Kwang-Youn Cho
Won-Chun Oh
Publikationsdatum
03.09.2016
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics / Ausgabe 2/2017
Print ISSN: 0957-4522
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-482X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-016-5673-0

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