Surface Modification of TiO2 Photoanodes with Fluorinated Self-Assembled Mono layers for Highly Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
- Authors
- Wooh, Sanghyuk; Kim, Tea-Yon; Song, Donghoon; Lee, Yong-Gun; Lee, Tae Kyung; Bergmann, Victor W.; Weber, Stefan A. L.; Bisquert, Juan; Kang, Yong Soo; Char, Kookheon
- Issue Date
- Nov-2015
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Keywords
- dye-sensitized solar cell; dye aggregation; electron recombination; fluorinated self assembled monolayer; surface engineering
- Citation
- ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, v.7, no.46, pp 25741 - 25747
- Pages
- 7
- Journal Title
- ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
- Volume
- 7
- Number
- 46
- Start Page
- 25741
- End Page
- 25747
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/48860
- DOI
- 10.1021/acsami.5b07211
- ISSN
- 1944-8244
1944-8252
- Abstract
- Dye aggregation and electron recombination in TiO2 photoanodes are the two major phenomena lowering the energy conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). Herein, we introduce a novel surface modification strategy of TiO2 photoanodes by the fluorinated self-assembled monolayer (F-SAM) formation with 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyltriethoxysilane (PFTS), blocking the vacant sites of the TiO2 surface after dye adsorption. The F-SAM helps to efficiently lower the surface tension, resulting in efficient repelling ions, e.g., I-3(-), in the electrolyte to decrease the electron recombination rate, and the role of F-SAM is characterized in detail by impedance spectroscopy using a diffusion-recombination model. In addition, the dye aggregates on the TiO2 surface are relaxed by the F-SAM with large conformational perturbation (i.e., helix structure) seemingly because of steric hindrance developed during the SAM formation. Such multifunctional effects suppress the electron recombination as well as the intermolecular interactions of dye aggregates without the loss of adsorbed dyes, enhancing both the photocurrent density (11.9 -> 13.5 mA cm(-2)) and open-circuit voltage (0.67 -> 0.72 V). Moreover, the combined surface modification with the F-SAM and the classical coadsorbent further improves the photovoltaic performance in DSCs.
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