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Novel in situ crosslinked polymer electrolyte for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

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A novel poly(citric acid-ethylene glycol)/LiI/I2 (PCE/LiI/I2) solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) based on the biodegradable PCE matrix has been prepared in situ, by penetrating of the PCE prepolymer sol into mesoporous TiO2 photoanode, followed by curing. The PCE prepolymer can easily penetrate into the mesoporous photoanode, which could induce good interfacial contact between the SPE and photoanode. Assembled with the SPE, highly efficient and stable solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have been gained due to the good interfacial contact of SPE/TiO2 photoanode as well as the favorable ionic conductivity of the SPE. The results show that the contents of CA determine the aggregation structure such as the inter-segmental distance and free volume of the PCE matrix, which consequently affects the ionic diffusion coefficient and conductivity of the PCE/LiI/I2 electrolyte, and accordingly the photoelectric performance of the DSSCs. With CA content of 32.4 wt%, the SPE reaches the optimal ionic conductivity of 5.43 × 10−5 S cm−1 and the solid-state DSSCs obtain the best overall photoelectric conversion efficiency of 1.22 % at 60 mW cm−2.

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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51003082), the Science and Technology Research Project of Department of Education of Hubei Province (Q20132601), the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province, China (2011CDC062), the Doctoral Research Fund of Hubei University of Arts and Science and the Hubei Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Optoelectronic Material and Devices.

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  1. Hubei Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Hubei University of Arts and Science, Xiangyang, 441053, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

    Guijie Liang, Zhicheng Zhong, Shaohua Qu, Song Wang, Ke Liu & Jingyang Wang

  2. State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, People’s Republic of China

    Guijie Liang

  3. Key Laboratory of Green Processing and Functional Textiles of New Textile Materials, Ministry of Education, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, 430073, People’s Republic of China

    Jie Xu

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Liang, G., Zhong, Z., Qu, S. et al. Novel in situ crosslinked polymer electrolyte for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. J Mater Sci 48, 6377–6385 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-013-7437-z

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