• 文献标题:   Electrospinning in Situ Synthesis of Graphene-Doped Porous Copper Indium Disulfide/Carbon Composite Nanofibers for Highly Efficient Counter Electrode in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HE JX, ZHOU MJ, WANG LD, ZHAO SY, WANG Q, DING B, CUI SZ
  • 作者关键词:   dyesensitized solar cell, counter electrode, electrospinning, cuins2 nanocrystal, carbon nanofiber
  • 出版物名称:   ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
  • ISSN:   0013-4686 EI 1873-3859
  • 通讯作者地址:   Zhongyuan Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.electacta.2016.08.101
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Porous graphene-doped copper indium disulfide/carbon (p-GN@CuInS2/C) composite nanofibers were fabricated via electrospinning, in situ synthesis, and carbonization. A polyacrylonitrile (PAN) solution containing graphene oxide nanosheets, copper dichloride (CuCl2), indium trichloride (InCl3), and thiourea (Tu.) in a mixed solvent of N,N-dimethylformamide/trichloromethane (DMF/CF) was used as the precursor solution for electrospinning. The resulting porous GN@CuInS2/C nanofibers were 107 +/- 24 nm in diameter, and graphene nanosheets anchored with chalcopyrite CuInS2 nanocrystals 7-12 nm in diameter were overlapped and embedded in the carbon matrix, aligning along the fiber axial direction. The Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area of the p-GN@CuInS2/C composite nanofibers was 795 m(2)/g, with a total pore volume of 0.71 cm(3)/g. These values were significantly larger than those of the sample without graphene and CuInS2/C nanofibers. A dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) assembled using the p-GN@CuInS2/C nanofibers as the counter electrode (CE) delivered a photoelectric conversion efficiency of 7.23%, which was higher than the efficiencies of DSSCs assembled using the samples without graphene (6.48%) and with the CuInS2/C nanofibers (5.45%). It was also much higher than that of the DSSC with a Pt CE (6.34%). The excellent photoelectric performance of the p-GN@CuInS2/C CE was attributed to its special hierarchical porous structure, which facilitated permeation of the liquid electrolytes and provided additional active catalytic sites for the oxidation reaction of the electrolytic (I-/I-3(-)). The doping of reduced graphene oxide (RGO) resulted in the well-dispersed growth of CuInS2 nanocrystals in the carbon nanofibers, which further increased the number of active catalytic sites and promoted electron and ion transfer. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.