Fabrication of Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Energy Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2021) | Viewed by 2274
Special Issue Editor
Interests: dye sensitized solar cell; agrivoltaics; nanotechnology; oxide semiconductor; thin films deposition
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Dear Colleagues,
The energy crisis is one of the most challenging problems confronting mankind today. According to global energy estimations, the world’s energy consumption will grow by 20–30% or more through 2040.
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), which are based on clean and sustainable solar energy, remain at the cutting edge of research. DSSCs offer the possibility to design low-cost solar cells with a high degree of flexibility in shape, color, and transparency. However, much more research needs to be done to commercialize them, and efforts need to focus on the development and optimization of each component of DSSCs in order to increase their long-term stability and efficiency while reducing costs and the environmental impact of the used materials. Moreover, in accordance with the theoretical maximum efficiency, which is suggested to surpass the Schottky–Queisser limit of 33%, designing tandem DSSCs could be a way to overcome their performance bottleneck.
Electrodes (photoanodes, photocathodes, and counter electrodes) are considered to be crucial components of DSSCs. They can be used to improve the photovoltaic performance, long-term stability, and cost of the devices that control photoconversion processes, such as dye adsorption, charge separation, light scattering, and electron transportation, and the regeneration of the redox mediator.
Dr. Marinela Miclau
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dye-sensitized solar cells
- photoanode
- photocathode
- counter electrode
- power conversion efficiency
