Aligned carbon nanotube sheets for the electrodes of organic solar cells

Zhibin Yang; Tao Chen; Ruixuan He; Guozhen Guan; Houpu Li; Longbin Qiu; Huisheng Peng

doi:10.1002/adma.201103509

Aligned carbon nanotube sheets for the electrodes of organic solar cells

Adv Mater. 2011 Dec 1;23(45):5436-9. doi: 10.1002/adma.201103509. Epub 2011 Oct 24.

Authors

Zhibin Yang¹, Tao Chen, Ruixuan He, Guozhen Guan, Houpu Li, Longbin Qiu, Huisheng Peng

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers of Ministry of Education, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

PMID: 22021101
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201103509

Abstract

Aligned carbon nanotube sheets are developed as a new family of electrodes to fabricate dye-sensitized solar cells. The energy conversion efficiency of the resulting cell is higher than the randomly dispersed carbon nanotube film and comparable with the platinum. Novel and flexible solar cells can be easily made from such carbon nanotube sheets with high potentials.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Electric Conductivity
Electric Power Supplies*
Electrodes
Nanotubes, Carbon / chemistry*
Organic Chemicals / chemistry*
Sunlight*

Substances

Nanotubes, Carbon
Organic Chemicals