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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 115, Issue 5, Pages 2439-2447Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp1101048
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Funding
- Alan Howard scholarships for Energy Futures
- EPSRC [EP/E035175/1]
- SUPERGEN Excitonic Solar Cells
- European Union [212792]
- EPSRC [EP/E035175/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/E035175/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We propose and apply a new experimental protocol for determining the kinetics of the oxidation of iodide (aka dye regeneration) in dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) using measurements on full cells under operating conditions. Transient absorption (TA) decays of the oxidized dye after a laser pulse are correlated with the short circuit current (J(sc)) and electron concentration in the TiO2, measured during the TA experiment. Results for a series of cells with N719 [(Bu4N)(2)][Ru(dcbpyH)(2)-(NCS)(2)] (dcbpy = 4,4'-dicarboxy-2,2'-bipyridyl), a standard electrolyte, and varying iodide concentration allow us to fit for the fundamental regeneration rate constant (k(rg) = 7.8 x 10(5)M(-1) s(-1)) and to determine that the order in iodide, in these cells, is near 1 (0.98 +/- 0.16) and dearly not 2. The rate and order allow us to rank various reaction mechanisms and to discuss possible rate-limiting steps that could be catalyzed to improve regeneration. The method can also give estimates of the fundamental rate constant for electron dye recombination (EDR) and the apparent reaction order in total electron concentration.
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