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TY - GEN
T1 - Conducting polymers
T2 - New arena in dye-sensitized solar cells
AU - Mazlan, N.A.
AU - Shahabuddin, S.
AU - Baharin, S.N.A.
AU - Pandey, A.K.
AU - Saidur, R.
PY - 2018/9/5
Y1 - 2018/9/5
N2 - Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) have arose to be a cost-effective substitute for solar cells in energy storage application. This is due to its special features such as environmentally safe and stable, inexpensive manufacturing and simple fabrication technique. Although DSSC possessed high efficiency in power conversion, some of the material used leads toward its limitations. For instance, the use of platinum metal as counter electrode is highly cost and it tends towards corrosion. Moreover, the used of volatile liquid as electrolyte often result in leakage and low chemical stability. In order to overcome these drawbacks, conducting polymer (CPs) are employed as replacement material for counter electrode and liquid electrolyte since CPs is known with their numerous unique properties in various application. This overview highlighted the role of CPs especially polyaniline (PANI) and polypyrrole (PPy) in DSSCs that can improve its photovoltaic performance despite the challenges and future prospects in using CPs as substitute material.
AB - Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) have arose to be a cost-effective substitute for solar cells in energy storage application. This is due to its special features such as environmentally safe and stable, inexpensive manufacturing and simple fabrication technique. Although DSSC possessed high efficiency in power conversion, some of the material used leads toward its limitations. For instance, the use of platinum metal as counter electrode is highly cost and it tends towards corrosion. Moreover, the used of volatile liquid as electrolyte often result in leakage and low chemical stability. In order to overcome these drawbacks, conducting polymer (CPs) are employed as replacement material for counter electrode and liquid electrolyte since CPs is known with their numerous unique properties in various application. This overview highlighted the role of CPs especially polyaniline (PANI) and polypyrrole (PPy) in DSSCs that can improve its photovoltaic performance despite the challenges and future prospects in using CPs as substitute material.
KW - Conducting polymers
KW - Counter electrode
KW - Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
KW - Polymer electrolyte
KW - Polymer material
KW - Chemical stability
KW - Corrosion
KW - Cost effectiveness
KW - Electrodes
KW - Polyaniline
KW - Polyelectrolytes
KW - Polymer solar cells
KW - Polypyrroles
KW - Solar cells
KW - Counter electrodes
KW - Energy storage applications
KW - Environmentally safe
KW - Fabrication technique
KW - Photovoltaic performance
KW - Polymer materials
KW - Replacement materials
KW - Dye-sensitized solar cells
U2 - 10.1049/cp.2018.1324
DO - 10.1049/cp.2018.1324
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
BT - 5th IET International Conference on Clean Energy and Technology (CEAT2018)
PB - IET
ER -