Ionic liquid electrolyte porphyrin dye sensitised solar cells

Vanessa Armel; Jennifer M Pringle; Maria Forsyth; Douglas R Macfarlane; David L Officer; Pawel Wagner

doi:10.1039/b926087k

Ionic liquid electrolyte porphyrin dye sensitised solar cells

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 May 14;46(18):3146-8. doi: 10.1039/b926087k. Epub 2010 Mar 10.

Authors

Vanessa Armel¹, Jennifer M Pringle, Maria Forsyth, Douglas R Macfarlane, David L Officer, Pawel Wagner

Affiliation

¹ Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia. vanessa.armel@sci.monash.edu.au

PMID: 20424755
DOI: 10.1039/b926087k

Abstract

Ionic liquid electrolytes based on a number of imidazolium, quaternary ammonium and phosphonium cations have been developed for porphyrin dye sensitised solar cells yielding efficiencies of up to 5.2% at 0.68 Sun.