Highly efficient Mo2C nanotubes as a counter electrode catalyst for organic redox shuttles in dye-sensitized solar cells

Mingxing Wu; Ya-nan Lin; Hongyue Guo; Kezhong Wu; Xiao Lin

doi:10.1039/C4CC01426J

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Highly efficient Mo₂C nanotubes as a counter electrode catalyst for organic redox shuttles in dye-sensitized solar cells†

Mingxing Wu,*^a Ya-nan Lin,^a Hongyue Guo,^a Kezhong Wu*^a and Xiao Lin*^b

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^a College of Chemistry and Material Science, Key Laboratory of Inorganic Nano-materials of Hebei Province, Hebei Normal University, No. 20 Rd. East of 2nd Ring South, Yuhua District, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, P. R. China
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^b Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jialuo Road 2019, Shanghai, P. R. China

Abstract

Molybdenum carbide nanotubes (Mo₂C-NTs) were synthesized and showed remarkable catalytic activity for regeneration of an organic sulfide redox shuttle. The dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) using Mo₂C-NTs as the counter electrode (CE) showed a high power conversion efficiency of 6.22%, which is much higher than the DSCs using a conventional Pt CE (3.91%).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC01426J
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 24 Feb 2014
Accepted: 11 Apr 2014
First published: 17 Apr 2014

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Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 7625-7627

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Highly efficient Mo₂C nanotubes as a counter electrode catalyst for organic redox shuttles in dye-sensitized solar cells

M. Wu, Y. Lin, H. Guo, K. Wu and X. Lin, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 7625 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC01426J

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