Phthaloylchitosan-Based Gel Polymer Electrolytes for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Journal article, 2014

Phthaloylchitosan-based gel polymer electrolytes were prepared with tetrapropylammonium iodide, Pr 4 NI, as the salt and optimized for conductivity. The electrolyte with the composition of 15.7 wt.% phthaloylchitosan, 31.7 wt.% ethylene carbonate (EC), 3.17wt.% propylene carbonate (PC), 19.0 wt.% of Pr 4 NI, and 1.9wt.% iodine exhibits the highest room temperature ionic conductivity of 5.27 x 10 -3 S cm -1. The dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) fabricated with this electrolyte exhibits an efficiency of 3.5% with.. SC of 7.38mAcm -2,.. OC of 0.72V, and fill factor of 0.66. When various amounts of lithium iodide (LiI) were added to the optimized gel electrolyte, the overall conductivity is observed to decrease. However, the efficiency of the DSSC increases to a maximum value of 3.71% when salt ratio of Pr 4 NI : LiI is 2 : 1. This cell has.. SC,.. OC and fill factor of 7.25mAcm -2, 0.77V and 0.67, respectively.

Author

S. N. F. Yusuf

University of Malaya

M. F. Aziz

University of Malaya

H. C. Hassan

University of Malaya

T M W J Bandara

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Solid State Physics

Bengt-Erik Mellander

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Solid State Physics

M. A. Careem

University of Malaya

A. K. Arof

University of Malaya

Journal of Chemistry

2090-9063 (ISSN) 2090-9071 (eISSN)

Vol. 2014 783023

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Physical Sciences

Chemical Sciences

Areas of Advance

Energy

Materials Science

DOI

10.1155/2014/783023

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