| 초록 |
We report a novel way to accelerate the rate of oxidized sensitizer neutralization on nanocrystalline TiO2 electrode surfaces using a novel coadsorbent, 3,4,5-tris-butenyloxy benzoic acid (TD), having three terminal double bonds. 1H NMR and contact angle measurements revealed that the terminal double bonds reacted with I2 to form an in situ-generated ionic layer of I– species. Transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) studies demonstrated that I– species neighbouring the cationic dye molecules (D+) accelerate the neutralization (or regeneration) rate (kD+), as well as decrease the recombination reactions of photoinduced electrons with D+ (k1) and I3– (k2). Dye-sensitized solar cells treated with TD exhibit 10.2 % of power conversion efficiency, 22% higher due to the simultaneous improvements in JSC and VOC, even at 15% low dye loading levels, compared to the values obtained from a conventional device. |
