Issue 30, 2012
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

All carbon nanotube fiber electrode-based dye-sensitized photovoltaic wire†

Fangjing Cai,a   Tao Chena  and  Huisheng Peng*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
E-mail: penghs@fudan.edu.cn

Abstract

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been recently spun into macroscopic fiber, in which CNTs are highly aligned along the axial direction, providing excellent mechanical and electrical properties for a wide variety of applications. One CNT fiber adsorbed with dye molecules functions as working electrode, while another CNT fiber is used as counter electrode. Two fiber electrodes are twined to produce the desired photovoltaic wire with high promise in many applications. In particular, this photovoltaic wire can be woven into textiles or integrated into various flexible equipment which remains challenging to the conventional planar solar cells.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2JM32256K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Apr 2012
Accepted
26 Jun 2012
First published
26 Jun 2012

J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 14856-14860

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All carbon nanotube fiber electrode-based dye-sensitized photovoltaic wire

F. Cai, T. Chen and H. Peng, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 14856 DOI: 10.1039/C2JM32256K

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