Issue 42, 2013
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Oriented PEDOT:PSS on aligned carbon nanotubes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells†

Guozhen Guan,a   Zhibin Yang,a   Longbin Qiu,a   Xuemei Sun,a   Zhitao Zhang,a   Jing Rena  and  Huisheng Peng*a  

* Corresponding authors

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

Abstract

Aligned carbon nanotube–oriented poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) composites show an unexpectedly high catalytic activity which greatly exceeds the aligned individual components, the non-aligned composite counterpart, and even conventional platinum. When they are used as counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells, the aligned composites also exhibit a highest energy conversion efficiency of 8.3%. The synergetic interaction between the nanotubes and polymers by aligned organization is the key to this new phenomenon.

Graphical abstract: Oriented PEDOT:PSS on aligned carbon nanotubes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3TA12669B
Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Jul 2013
Accepted
30 Aug 2013
First published
02 Sep 2013

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013,1, 13268-13273

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Oriented PEDOT:PSS on aligned carbon nanotubes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

G. Guan, Z. Yang, L. Qiu, X. Sun, Z. Zhang, J. Ren and H. Peng, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, 1, 13268 DOI: 10.1039/C3TA12669B

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