Characterization of porous carbon nanofibers decorated with Pt catalysts for use as counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Hye Lan An; Geon Hyoung An; Hyo Jin Ahn

Characterization of porous carbon nanofibers decorated with Pt catalysts for use as counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Hye Lan An, Geon Hyoung An, Hyo Jin Ahn

Department of Energy and Materials Engineering

Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SNUST)

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Abstract

Porous carbon nanofibers decorated with Pt catalysts (Pt/PCNFs) are prepared by electrospinning and impregnation methods. To synthesize the PCNF, poly(styrene-co-acry-lonitrile) (SAN), a pore-forming agent, is added to polyacrylonitrile (PAN), the carbon nanofiber (CNF) precursor. With regard to photovoltaic properties, Pt/PCNFs fabricated using the optimum amount of 0.5 wt% SAN polymer exhibit a larger open circuit voltage (V_oc) of 0.73 V, a higher fill factor (FF) of 66.57%, and an excellent photoconversion efficiency (η) of 6.47% compared to carbon nanofibers decorated with Pt catalysts (Pt/CNFs) and commercial Pt solutions under standard test conditions (100 mW/cm² (1 sun); AM 1.5G spectrum).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	208-212
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Ceramic Processing Research
Volume	16
Issue number	2
State	Published - 2015

Keywords

Counter electrode
Dye-sensitized solar cells
Electrospinning
Porous carbon nanofibers

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