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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 4, Issue 41, Pages 16119-16127Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6ta04405k
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- Department of Atomic Energy-Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (DAE-BRNS), Mumbai, India [2013/37P/1/BRNS/10]
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Ternary sulfides of Ni1-xMoxS films with various compositions (x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, and 0.2) were fabricated on a fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) glass substrate by a simple one-step electrochemical deposition method. The electrochemically deposited ternary sulfides were utilized as a low-cost and highly efficient platinum free counter electrode (CE) for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The structure, surface morphology and elemental composition of the electrochemically deposited ternary sulfides were examined by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), high resolution scanning electron microscopy (HR-SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). A phthaloylchitosan (PhCh) based polymer electrolyte was used as an electrolyte for DSSCs. Cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and Tafel polarization studies revealed that the Ni0.95Mo0.05S CE exhibited lower charge-transfer resistance at the CE/electrolyte interface and higher electrocatalytic activity towards the regeneration of I- from I-3(-) relative to other compositions. The Ni0.95Mo0.05S ternary sulfide offers a positive synergistic effect for the electrochemical catalytic activity towards the reduction of I-3(-), which may be due to an increase in active catalytic sites and low-charge transfer resistance and achieved a high power conversion efficiency of 7.15% with a V-oc of 0.65 V, a J(sc) of 17.21 mA cm(-2), and a FF of 0.64 with a PhCh-based polymer electrolyte, which is comparable to that of the conventional Pt CE (7.20%). The present investigation demonstrates that the electrochemically deposited Ni0.95Mo0.05S ternary sulfide is a promising candidate as a low-cost and highly efficient CE in DSSCs.
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