Synthesis of Cobalt and Copper Redox Electrolyte Materials and their Application in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Abstract

Accompanying with the energy crisis and increasing population, made us to newlinesearch for alternative renewable technology. Among different energy conversion newlinetechnologies, DSSCs has gained much attention because of its low cost, co-friendly newlineproduction and competitive efficiency. At present, commercialization of DSSC has newlineoccluded due to various impediments, such as low ionic conductivity of solid state newlineelectrolyte, leakage in liquid electrolyte and stability issues. To overcome above newlineproblems, modification in solid electrolyte or switching to gel electrolyte will be an newlineideal solution. In general electrolytes consisting of four key components, such as (i) newlineredox shuttle, additive, organic solvent and conductive polymer in case of gel polymer newlinebased electrolytes newline