Issue 11, 2018

Nanoarchitectures in dye-sensitized solar cells: metal oxides, oxide perovskites and carbon-based materials

Abstract

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have aroused great interest and been regarded as a potential renewable energy resource among the third-generation solar cell technologies to fulfill the 21st century global energy demand. DSSCs have notable advantages such as low cost, easy fabrication process and being eco-friendly in nature. The progress of DSSCs over the last 20 years has been nearly constant due to some limitations, like poor long-term stability, narrow absorption spectrum, charge carrier transportation and collection losses and poor charge transfer mechanism for regeneration of dye molecules. The main challenge for the scientific community is to improve the performance of DSSCs by using different approaches, like finding new electrode materials with suitable nanoarchitectures, dyes in composition with promising semiconductors and metal quantum dot fluorescent dyes, and cost-effective hole transporting materials (HTMs). This review focuses on DSSC photo-physics, which includes charge separation, effective transportation, collection and recombination processes. Different nanostructured materials, including metal oxides, oxide perovskites and carbon-based composites, have been studied for photoanodes, and counter electrodes, which are crucial to achieve DSSC devices with higher efficiency and better stability.

Graphical abstract: Nanoarchitectures in dye-sensitized solar cells: metal oxides, oxide perovskites and carbon-based materials

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
09 nov 2017
Accepted
12 fev 2018
First published
12 fev 2018

Nanoscale, 2018,10, 4987-5034

Nanoarchitectures in dye-sensitized solar cells: metal oxides, oxide perovskites and carbon-based materials

J. S. Shaikh, N. S. Shaikh, S. S. Mali, J. V. Patil, K. K. Pawar, P. Kanjanaboos, C. K. Hong, J. H. Kim and P. S. Patil, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 4987 DOI: 10.1039/C7NR08350E

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