Carbonaceous Materials and Their Advances as a Counter Electrode in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Challenges and Prospects

• Main Authors: Kouhnavard, Mojgan, Ludin, Norasikin Ahmad, Ghaffari, Babak V., Sopian, Kamarozzaman, Ikeda, Shoichiro
• Format: Article
• Published: Wiley-VCH Verlag 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/58000/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201500004

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) serve as low-costing alternatives to silicon solar cells because of their low material and fabrication costs. Usually, they utilize Pt as the counter electrode (CE) to catalyze the iodine redox couple and to complete the electric circuit. Given that Pt is a rare an...