Ionic liquid crystal as a hole transport layer of dye-sensitized solar cells
Noriyo Yamanaka1, Ryuji Kawano, Wataru Kubo
1Material and Life Science, Graduate School of Ingineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka Suita, 565-0871, Japan.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 3, 2005
Abstract:
Use of a new ionic liquid crystal, 1-dodecyl-3-methylimidazolium iodide, and iodine as an electrolyte of dye-sensitized solar cells leads to a high short circuit photocurrent density and a high light-to-electricity conversion efficiency, due to a self-assembled structure of the imidazolium cations, resulting in high conductivity of the electrolyte.
