Nitrogen-Reduced Graphene Oxide Modification for Improving Energy Conversion Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Zhonghua Xiang; Xing Zhou; Dapeng Cao

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Nitrogen-Reduced Graphene Oxide Modification for Improving Energy Conversion Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Zhonghua Xiang,Xing Zhou,Dapeng Cao *

State Key Lab of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029

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Funding: Doctoral Program from MOE of China （No.20100010110001）, Outstanding Talent Funding from BUCT（No.RC1301）, National Scientific Research Funding （No.ZZ1304）, National NSF of China（No.91334203, 21274011）, National 863 Programs （No.2013AA031901）

Opened online:31 March 2014

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Citation: Zhonghua Xiang,Xing Zhou,Dapeng Cao.Nitrogen-Reduced Graphene Oxide Modification for Improving Energy Conversion Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells[OL]. [31 March 2014] http://en.paper.edu.cn/en_releasepaper/content/4589749

As potential third generation photovoltaic cells, the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted extensive research interests and have become one of hot topics in current research. In this work, a series of the DSSCs based on the TiO2 photoanodes modified by graphene oxide (GO) and nitrogen reduced graphene oxide (N-rGO) were fabricated. Results indicated that N-rGO is a better TiO2 photoanode modifier of the DSSC, compared to GO. With the increase of addition amount of N-rGO, the open circuit voltage increases, while both the short circuit current and power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the DSSCs exhibit a maximum at the content of 0.2 wt% N-rGO. In particular, the maximum PCE of the DSSCs reaches 7.19% in this work, which gains a 13.23% enhancement compared to the PCE of 6.42% of conventional TiO2 DSSCs. The enhancement of the PCE of the DSSCs with N-rGO was mainly attributed to the reduction of electron recombination and the increase of electron transfer efficiency after incorporating N-rGO into TiO2 photoanodes.

Keywords:Dye sensitized solar cells; Nitrogen reduced graphene oxide; Graphene oxide; TiO2 photanodes

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