Issue 6, 2005
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Chemical Communications

Ionic liquid crystal as a hole transport layer of dye-sensitized solar cells

Noriyo Yamanaka,a   Ryuji Kawano,b   Wataru Kubo,a   Takayuki Kitamura,a   Yuji Wada,a   Masayoshi Watanabeb  and  Shozo Yanagida*c  

* Corresponding authors

a Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka Suita, Japan
E-mail: ywada@mls.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

b Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, Japan
E-mail: mwatanab@ynu.ac.jp

c Center for Advance Science and Innovation Osaka University, Japan
E-mail: yanagida@mls.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Abstract

Use of a new ionic liquid crystal, 1-dodecyl-3-methylimidazolium iodide, and iodine as an electrolyte of dye-sensitized solar cells leads to a high short circuit photocurrent density and a high light-to-electricity conversion efficiency, due to a self-assembled structure of the imidazolium cations, resulting in high conductivity of the electrolyte.

Graphical abstract: Ionic liquid crystal as a hole transport layer of dye-sensitized solar cells

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B417610C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 Nov 2004
Accepted
20 Dec 2004
First published
12 Jan 2005

Chem. Commun., 2005, 740-742

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Ionic liquid crystal as a hole transport layer of dye-sensitized solar cells

N. Yamanaka, R. Kawano, W. Kubo, T. Kitamura, Y. Wada, M. Watanabe and S. Yanagida, Chem. Commun., 2005, 740 DOI: 10.1039/B417610C

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