Surface carbon shell-functionalized ZrO2 as nanofiller in polymer gel electrolyte-based dye-sensitized solar cells

Seung Man Lim; Juyoung Moon; Gyo Hun Choi; Uoon Chul Baek; Jeong Min Lim; Jung Tae Park; Jong Hak Kim

doi:10.3390/nano9101418

Surface carbon shell-functionalized ZrO₂ as nanofiller in polymer gel electrolyte-based dye-sensitized solar cells

Seung Man Lim, Juyoung Moon, Gyo Hun Choi, Uoon Chul Baek, Jeong Min Lim, Jung Tae Park, Jong Hak Kim

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Abstract

We prepare dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) fabricated with a poly (ethylene glycol) based polymer gel electrolytes (PGEs) incorporating surface carbon shell-functionalized ZrO₂ nanoparticles (ZrO₂-C) as nanofillers (NFs). ZrO₂ are polymerized via atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) using poly (ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (POEM) as a scaffold to prepare the ZrO₂-C through carbonization. The power conversion efficiency of DSSC with 12 wt% ZrO₂-C/PGEs is 5.6%, exceeding that with PGEs (4.4%). The enhanced efficiency is attributed to Lewis acid-base interactions of ZrO₂-C and poly (ethylene glycol), catalytic effect of the carbon shells of ZrO₂-C, which results in reduced crystallinity, enhanced ion conductivity of electrolytes, decreased counterelectrode/electrolyte interfacial resistance, and improved charge transfer rate. These results demonstrate that ZrO₂-C introduction to PGEs effectively improves the performance of DSSCs.

Original language	English
Article number	1418
Journal	Nanomaterials
Volume	9
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9101418
Publication status	Published - 2019 Oct

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (NRF-2017R1A4A1014569, NRF-2019R1C1C1010283).

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© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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