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Application of microporous polyaniline counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells

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An inexpensive microporous polyaniline (PANI) is used as a substitute for platinum to construct the counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs).
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This article is published in Electrochemistry Communications.The article was published on 2008-09-01. It has received 445 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Auxiliary electrode & Palladium-hydrogen electrode.

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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

TL;DR: Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) offer the possibilities to design solar cells with a large flexibility in shape, color, and transparency as mentioned in this paper, and many DSC research groups have been established around the world.
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Counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

TL;DR: This article panoramically reviews the counter electrodes in D SSCs, which is of great significance for enhancing the development levels of DSSCs and other photoelectrochemical devices.
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Low-Cost Molybdenum Carbide and Tungsten Carbide Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

TL;DR: Results demonstrate that molybdenum and tungsten carbides are potential alternatives to the expensive and scarce Pt in low-cost DSSCs.
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Pt-free counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells with high efficiency

TL;DR: This Progress Report focuses on the design of novel Pt-free CE catalytic materials, including design ideas, fabrication approaches, characterization techniques, first-principle density functional theory (DFT) calculations, ab-initio Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics (CPMD) simulations, and stability evaluations, that serve as practical alternatives to conventional noble metal Pt electrodes.
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A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a photovoltaic cell, created from low-to medium-purity materials through low-cost processes, which exhibits a commercially realistic energy-conversion efficiency.
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Photoelectrochemical cells : Materials for clean energy

Michael Grätzel
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look into the historical background, and present status and development prospects for photoelectrochemical cells, based on nanocrystalline materials and conducting polymer films.
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"Synthetic Metals": A Novel Role for Organic Polymers (Nobel Lecture).

TL;DR: Herein is described a novel, simple, and cheap method to prepare patterns of conducting polymers by a process which the authors term, "Line Patterning".
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Polyaniline: a polymer with many interesting intrinsic redox states

TL;DR: The ability of aniline polymers to exist in a large number of intrinsic redox states makes them a unique and interesting class of polymeric materials as mentioned in this paper, and a number of fine reviews on the synthesis, physicochemical and electrochemical properties of the polymer have also appeared during this period.
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Perspectives for dye‐sensitized nanocrystalline solar cells

TL;DR: The Web of Science Record was created on 2006-02-21, modified on 2017-05-12 by as discussed by the authors, and was used for the LPI-ARTICLE-2000-012 abstract.
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