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Electrospinning of Photocatalytic Electrodes for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
Published on: June 28, 2017
Platinum-free tungsten carbides as an efficient counter electrode for dye sensitized solar cells
Jum Suk Jang1, Dong Jin Ham, Easwaramoorthi Ramasamy
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Korea.
Abstract:
Mesoporous tungsten carbides displayed an excellent solar conversion efficiency (7.01%) as a counter electrode for dye sensitized solar cells under 100 mW cm(-2), AM 1.5G illumination, which corresponded to ca. 85% of the efficiency of the conventional platinum electrode.

