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- Title
Dissolution Engineering of Platinum Alloy Counter Electrodes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.
- Authors
Tang, Qunwei; Zhang, Huihui; Meng, Yuanyuan; He, Benlin; Yu, Liangmin
- Abstract
The dissolution of platinum (Pt) has been one of the heart issues in developing advanced dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). We present here the experimental realization of stable counter-electrode (CE) electrocatalysts by alloying Pt with transition metals for enhanced dissolution resistance to state-of-the-art iodide/triiodide (I−/I3−) redox electrolyte. Our focus is placed on the systematic studies of dissolution engineering for Pt M0.05 ( M=Ni, Co, Fe, Pd, Mo, Cu, Cr, and Au) alloy CE electrocatalysts along with mechanism analysis from thermodynamical aspects, yielding more negative Gibbs free energies for the dissolution reactions of transition metals. The competitive reactions between transition metals with iodide species (I3−, I2) could protect the Pt atoms from being dissolved by redox electrolyte and therefore remain the high catalytic activity of the Pt electrode.
- Subjects
PLATINUM alloys; ELECTRODES; SOLAR cells; DISSOLUTION (Chemistry); IODIDES
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015, Vol 54, Issue 39, p11448
- ISSN
1433-7851
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/anie.201505339