posted on 2015-07-10, 09:13authored byMunkhbayar Batmunkh, C.J. Shearer, Mark Biggs, J.G. Shapter
Organic-inorganic halides based perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted a great deal of attention from the photovoltaic (PV) research community due to the extremely rapid increases in efficiencies observed over the past few years. The PSC is an extension of dye-sensitised solar cells and has reached an energy conversion efficiency of 19.3% by mid-2014. However, PSCs do have some disadvantages such as use of expensive metal electrodes, the high temperature required during production and poor stability when in use. There is no doubt that research with carbon nanomaterials will play an important role in understanding and solving the issues currently observed in PSCs, as they consistently have been shown to improve performance in a wide range of energy related applications. The present review (i) provides a brief introduction to PSC development; (ii) highlights the notable achievements of PSCs; (iii) particularly focuses on the use of nanocarbon in mesoscopic PSCs and (iv) predicts and suggests a roadmap for the future application of carbon materials in this emerging technology.
Funding
The support of the Australian Research Council Discovery Program (DP130101714) is gratefully acknowledged.
History
School
Science
Department
Chemistry
Published in
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume
3
Issue
17
Pages
9020 - 9031
Citation
BATMUNKH, M. et al, 2015. Nanocarbons for mesoscopic perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3 (17), pp. 9020 - 9031.
Publisher
The Royal Society of Chemistry
Version
VoR (Version of Record)
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Publication date
2015
Notes
Published by the RSC with a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/