From salmon pink to blue natural sensitizers for solar cells: Canna indica L., Salvia splendens, cowberry and Solanum nigrum L. |
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| Authors: | Peihui Luo Haijun Niu Gang Zheng Xuduo Bai Milin Zhang Wen Wang |
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| Affiliation: | aKey Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Functional Macromolecular Chemistry, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, PR China;bCollege of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, PR China;cSchool of Material Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, PR China |
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| Abstract: | Study on dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) with extracts of Canna indica L., Salvia splendens, Solanum nigrum L. as sensitizers is firstly reported in this paper. DSSCs were assembled by using natural dyes extracted from C. indica L., S. splendens, cowberry and S. nigrum L. as sensitizers. The energy conversion efficiency of the cells sensitized with dyes of C. indica L., S. splendens, cowberry and S. nigrum L. was 0.29%, 0.26%, 0.13% and 0.31%, respectively. A novel technique was taken to fabricate TiO2 electrode films by electrophoresis. We present FTIR and UV–vis spectroscopy studies of structures and light absorption of these four kinds of natural dyes. The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) was used to analyze the interface resistance of cells. The result indicated that high resistance existed in the interfaces of cell with cowberry extract as sensitizer. |
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| Keywords: | Natural dye-sensitized solar cell Canna indica L. Salvia splendens Cowberry Solanum nigrum L |
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