Metal/metal sulfide functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes : FTO-free counter electrodes for dye sensitized solar cells

• Main Authors: Zhang, Liling, Mulmudi, Hemant Kumar, Batabyal, Sudip Kumar, Lam, Yeng Ming, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101041; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11065
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The use of single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNT) thin films to replace conventional fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) and both FTO and platinum (Pt) as the counter electrode in dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC) requires surface modification due to high sheet resistance and charge transfer resistance. In...