Issue 2, 2011

Dye-sensitized solar cellredox shuttles

Abstract

In this Perspective article we describe how the processes involving the redox shuttle—dye regeneration, recombination, and diffusion—affect the photovoltaic performance of dye-sensitized solar cells, DSSCs. Key literature on the mechanistically complicated, but ubiquitously employed, triiodide/iodide electrolyte is reviewed. Literature examples and recent results from our laboratory in utilizing one-electron outersphere redox shuttles in place of triiodide/iodide are then presented.

Graphical abstract: Dye-sensitized solar cell redox shuttles

  • This article is part of the themed collection: Solar energy

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Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
09 Jul 2010
Accepted
30 Sep 2010
First published
01 Dec 2010

Energy Environ. Sci., 2011,4, 370-381

Dye-sensitized solar cell redox shuttles

T. W. Hamann and J. W. Ondersma, Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 370 DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00251H

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