Electrochemical Properties of Cu(II/I)-Based Redox Mediators for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

• DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2016.12.185
• Publication Date: 2016-12-30T19:20:57Z
• Authors: Ladislav Kavan; Yasemin Saygili; Marina Freitag; Shaik M. Zakeeruddin; Anders Hagfeldt; Michael Grätzel
• Keywords: Condensed Matter - Materials Science; Redox mediators; Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci); FOS: Physical sciences; 02 engineering and technology; Cu-complexes; 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy; 0104 chemical sciences; Graphene; 0210 nano-technology; Dye sensitized solar cell

Three Cu(II/I)-phenanthroline and Cu(II/I)-bipyridine redox mediators are studied on various electrodes and in variety of electrolyte solutions using cyclic voltammetry and impedance spectroscopy on symmetrical dummy cells.