Pavithra, N. and Velayutham, D. and Sorrentino, A. and Anandan, S. (2017) Thiourea incorporated poly(ethylene oxide) as transparent gel polymer electrolyte for dye sensitized solar cell applications. Journal of Power Sources, 353. pp. 245-253. ISSN 0378-7753
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Abstract
A new series of transparent gel polymer electrolytes are prepared by adding various weight percent of thiourea coupled with poly(ethylene oxide) for the application of dye-sensitized solar cells. Coupling of thiourea in the presence of iodine undergoes dimerization reaction to produce formamidine disulfide. Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy shows that the interactions of thiourea and formamidine disulfide with electronegative ether linkage of poly(ethylene oxide) results in conformational changes of gel polymer electrolytes. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and linear sweep voltammetry experiments reveal an increment in ionic conductivity and tri-iodide diffusion coefficient, for thiourea modified gel polymer electrolytes. Finally, the prepared electrolytes are used as a redox mediator in dyesensitized solar cells and the photovoltaic properties were studied. Apart from transparency, the gel polymer electrolytes with thiorurea show higher photovoltaic properties compared to bare gel polymer electrolyte and a maximum photocurrent efficiency of 7.17% is achieved for gel polymer electrolyte containing 1 wt% of thiourea with a short circuit current of 11.79 mA cm�2 and open circuit voltage of 834 mV. Finally, under rear illumination, almost 90% efficiency is retained upon compared to front illumination.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Dye-sensitized solar cells;Transparency;Thiourea Gel polymer electrolytes;Efficiency |
| Subjects: | Solar Energy Electrochemical Power Sources |
| Divisions: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Depositing User: | Dr. N Meyyappan |
| Date Deposited: | 06 May 2019 05:33 |
| Last Modified: | 06 May 2019 05:33 |
| URI: | http://cecri.csircentral.net/id/eprint/3211 |
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