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Nanostructured photoelectrochemical solar cells with polyaniline nanobelts acting as hole conductors

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Nanostructured photoelectrochemical solar cells have been prepared by combining a Sb2S3-sensitized photoactive electrode, polyaniline nanobelts, and a Ag counter electrode to form a layered structure. Here, Sb2S3 acts as an absorbing semiconductor, and polyaniline acts as both a hole conductor and light absorber (a hole-conducting dye). Via the optimization that eventually determines the chemical bath deposition duration to be 3 h, the cell shows a high photovoltaic performance with 7.05 mA/cm2-short-circuit current density, 0.695 V-open-circuit voltage, 0.457 fill factor, and 2.24 % power conversion efficiency. The prepared devices are stable under room light in ambient conditions (even without encapsulation).

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This work was supported by the NNSF of China under grant 21327001.

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  1. Department of Electronic Science, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plasma and Magnetic Resonance, State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China

    Xiaoping Zhang, Shuohui Cao, Jiangli Wang & Zhong Chen

  2. Institute of Materials Physical Chemistry, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, 361021, China

    Zhang Lan

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Zhang, X., Lan, Z., Cao, S. et al. Nanostructured photoelectrochemical solar cells with polyaniline nanobelts acting as hole conductors. Ionics 21, 1781–1786 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-014-1316-8

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