Issue 37, 2013
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Electrodeposition of nanostructured cobalt selenide films towards high performance counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells†

Zhongyi Zhang,abe   Shuping Pang,a   Hongxia Xu,a   Zhenzhong Yang,d   Xiaoying Zhang,ae   Zhihong Liu,a   Xiaogang Wang,a   Xinhong Zhou,c   Shanmu Dong,a   Xiao Chen,a   Lin Gud  and  Guanglei Cui*a  

* Corresponding authors

a The Qingdao Key Lab of solar energy utilization and energy storage technology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, P. R. China
E-mail: cuigl@qibebt.ac.cn

b College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao, P. R. China

c Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, P. R. China

d Beijing Laboratory for Electron Microscopy, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

e University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China

Abstract

Nanostructured cobalt selenide films with honeycomb-like morphology were successfully fabricated on FTO glass by a facile electrodeposition method at ambient temperature. Such porous structure generated by randomly intersectant freboldite cobalt selenide nanosheets led to high concentration of active sites and better porosity accessible to the electrolyte, delivering superior electrocatalytic performance for the triiodide reduction. It was demonstrated that the nanostructured cobalt selenide films yielded comparable energy conversion efficiency to noble metal Pt electrode as the counter electrode in dye sensitized solar cells.

Graphical abstract: Electrodeposition of nanostructured cobalt selenide films towards high performance counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA42360C
Article type
Paper
Submitted
13 Dec 2012
Accepted
09 Jul 2013
First published
11 Jul 2013

RSC Adv., 2013,3, 16528-16533

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Electrodeposition of nanostructured cobalt selenide films towards high performance counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Z. Zhang, S. Pang, H. Xu, Z. Yang, X. Zhang, Z. Liu, X. Wang, X. Zhou, S. Dong, X. Chen, L. Gu and G. Cui, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 16528 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA42360C

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