Abstract
High efficiency and low cost dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted much attention very recently in the context of our need for an affordable renewable energy source. Inexpensive porous polyaniline nanotubes (PPNT-1) have been synthesized through a simple method via controlled polymerization of aniline with ammonium persulfate in the presence of concentrated orthophosphoric acid. PPNT-1 has been used as a substitute for platinum to construct the counter electrode (CE) in a DSSC, which showed lower charge transfer resistance and higher electrocatalytic activity for reduction of I3- into I− than that of Pt electrode. PPNT-1-10T CE achieved a high conversion efficiency of 5.57%, matching the performance of otherwise identical DSSCs with Pt CE (5.20%).
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