• 文献标题:   Metal sulfide nanosheet-nitrogen-doped graphene hybrids as low-cost counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells
  • 文献类型:   Article, Proceedings Paper
  • 作  者:   GANESH RS, SILAMBARASAN K, DURGADEVI E, NAVANEETHAN M, PONNUSAMY S, KONG CY, MUTHAMIZHCHELVAN C, SHIMURA Y, HAYAKAWA Y
  • 作者关键词:   nitrogendoped graphene, metal sulfide nanosheet, catalytic activity, scanning transmission electron microscopy, dyesensitized solar cell
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0169-4332 EI 1873-5584
  • 通讯作者地址:   Shizuoka Univ
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.02.251
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Transparent thin two-dimensional nitrogen-doped graphene (NG) nanosheets coated with Ni- and Cu-doped MoS2 nanosheets (denoted as Ni-Mo-S@NG and Cu-Mo-S@NG, respectively) were synthesized by a simple hydrothermal process. The synthesized samples were coated by a simple spray pyrolysis technique onto fluorine-doped tin oxide substrates. Scanning transmission electron microscopy analysis showed that square-like Ni-Mo-S and hexagonal-like Cu-Mo-S nanosheets were anchored on the surface of NG without aggregation in Ni-Mo-S@NG and Cu-Mo-S@NG, respectively. Raman analysis confirmed the presence of graphene in both samples because of the high G-band intensity. Cyclic voltammetry analysis indicated that Ni-Mo-S@NG possessed superior catalytic activity to Cu-Mo-S@NG as an electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells; the separation between its oxidation and reduction peak currents (Epp) of about 382 mV was smaller than that of a platinum electrode (450 mV). A solar cell with Ni-Mo-S@NG showed a higher open circuit voltage (0.72 +/- 0.02 V) and fill factor (0.57 +/- 0.04) than those of solar cells with Cu-Mo-S@NG and Pt counter electrodes. The solar cell with Cu-Mo-S@NG showed higher current density and lower Epp (421 mV) than those of an equivalent cell with Pt. The solar cells with Ni-Mo-S@NG and Cu-Mo-S@NG showed power conversion efficiencies of 2.85% and 2.62%, respectively, which were equivalent to that of a cell with a Pt counter electrode (2.41%).