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RSC ADVANCES
卷 6, 期 14, 页码 11481-11487出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra23856k
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) [NNX13AD31A, NNX14AN22A]
- US-Pakistan Joint Science & Technology Program through the National Academy of Science
- Egyptian Government Fellowship (Egyptian Missions Sector)
- Department of Education in Anhui Province of China [2015LJRCTD001]
In this study, freestanding and mechanically flexible nano-felt consisting of electrospun carbon nanofibers (ECNFs) derived from alkali lignin with a BET specific surface area of similar to 583 cm(2) g(-1) and average pore size of similar to 3.5 nm was prepared and then surface-deposited with Pt nanoparticles (Pt NPs). Both nano-felts of ECNFs and ECNFs-Pt were studied as cost-effective counter electrodes of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) results showed that the amount of Pt NPs in ECNFs-Pt nanofelt was similar to 9.9 wt%, and the scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) results indicated that the Pt NPs with small sizes in the range of 2-20 nm were randomly distributed on the surface of ECNFs. The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) tests revealed that the ECNFs-based counter electrode had low charge transfer resistance (R-ct = 1.94 U cm(2)), and the R-ct value was reduced to 1.2 Omega cm(2) upon surface-deposition of Pt NPs. The prototype DSSCs based on ECNFs and ECNFs-Pt counter electrodes exhibited comparable performances to the DSSC based on a conventional Pt counter electrode in terms of short circuit density (J(sc)), open circuit voltage (V-oc), fill factor (FF), and energy conversion efficiency (eta).
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