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Highly Efficient Metal-Free Sulfur-Doped and Nitrogen and Sulfur Dual-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Luo, Qiang
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Hao, Feng
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Wang, Shenghan
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2014
Journal Of Physical Chemistry C

Developing metal-free electrocatalysts with both high performance and low cost for the reduction reaction at the cathode of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) is critical for further cost reduction and large-scale implementation of DSCs. Here, sulfurdoped reduced graphene oxide (SRGO) and nitrogen and sulfur dual-doped reduced graphene oxide (NSRGO) were applied as highly efficient metal-free electrocatalysts for DSCs in disulfide/thiolate redox electrolytes. It was found that SRGO and NSRGO exhibited outstanding electrochemical performance toward catalyzing the disulfide/thiolate redox couple. The DSC devices based on SRGO and NSRGO counter electrodes showed power conversion efficiency of 4.23% and 4.73%, respectively. In addition, the obtained SRGO and NSRGO also presented catalytic activity higher than that of the platinum electrodes for Co(bpy)(3)(3+/2+) redox mediators. The currently reported SRGO and NSRGO demonstrate not only the attractive feasibility of replacing platinum cathodes with abundant carbon materials for novel iodine-free electrolytes but also that the judicious heteroatom doping of graphene oxide might open promising directions for further cathode candidates for iodine-free DSCs.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/jp5004424
Web of Science ID

WOS:000339930900086

Author(s)
Luo, Qiang
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Hao, Feng
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Wang, Shenghan
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Shen, Heping
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Zhao, Lihong
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Li, Jianbao
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Graetzel, Michael  
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Lin, Hong
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

American Chemical Society

Published in
Journal Of Physical Chemistry C
Volume

118

Issue

30

Start page

17010

End page

17018

Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LPI  
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August 29, 2014
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/106282
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