TY - JOUR
T1 - Electrospun membranes of imidazole-grafted PVDF-HFP polymeric ionic liquids for highly efficient quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells
AU - Pang, Hao Wei
AU - Yu, Hsin Fu
AU - Huang, Yi June
AU - Li, Chun Ting
AU - Ho, Kuo Chuan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by the "Advanced Research Center of Green Materials Science and Technology" from The Featured Area Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (107L9006) and the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan (MOST 105-2221-E-002-229-MY3, 106-2119-M-007-004, and 107-3017-F-002-001).
Funding Information:
This work was nancially supported by the “Advanced Research Center of Green Materials Science and Technology” from The Featured Area Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (107L9006) and the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan (MOST 105-2221-E-002-229-MY3, 106-2119-M-007-004, and 107-3017-F-002-001).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Three novel polymeric ionic liquids (PILs), denoted as PFII-F, PFII-E, and PFII-S, are successfully synthesized by grafting different molar ratios (one-fourth, one eighth, and one sixteenth, respectively) of 1-butylimidazolium iodide onto poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP). These PFII PILs are fabricated as polymer membranes via a simple electrospinning technique, which are used as the electrolyte for quasi-solid-state (QSS) dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The PFII membranes have multiple functions including: (1) encapsulation of the liquid electrolyte with good charge transfer and ionic conductivity properties, (2) chelation of Li+ through the lone pair electrons on their fluoride atoms, and (3) filling the dye-uncovered TiO2 surface with their imidazolium segment. Function (1) endows DSSCs with prominent long-term stability, while functions (2) and (3) suppress the dark current. The best QSS-DSSC with the PFII-F membrane shows a larger open-circuit voltage (VOC), comparable short-circuit current density (JSC), better power conversion efficiency (η) of 9.26%, and superior long-term stability (up to 97% of its initial η) over 1500 h compared to the cell with standard liquid electrolyte (8.63%).
AB - Three novel polymeric ionic liquids (PILs), denoted as PFII-F, PFII-E, and PFII-S, are successfully synthesized by grafting different molar ratios (one-fourth, one eighth, and one sixteenth, respectively) of 1-butylimidazolium iodide onto poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP). These PFII PILs are fabricated as polymer membranes via a simple electrospinning technique, which are used as the electrolyte for quasi-solid-state (QSS) dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The PFII membranes have multiple functions including: (1) encapsulation of the liquid electrolyte with good charge transfer and ionic conductivity properties, (2) chelation of Li+ through the lone pair electrons on their fluoride atoms, and (3) filling the dye-uncovered TiO2 surface with their imidazolium segment. Function (1) endows DSSCs with prominent long-term stability, while functions (2) and (3) suppress the dark current. The best QSS-DSSC with the PFII-F membrane shows a larger open-circuit voltage (VOC), comparable short-circuit current density (JSC), better power conversion efficiency (η) of 9.26%, and superior long-term stability (up to 97% of its initial η) over 1500 h compared to the cell with standard liquid electrolyte (8.63%).
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U2 - 10.1039/c8ta01215f
DO - 10.1039/c8ta01215f
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050571391
SN - 2050-7488
VL - 6
SP - 14215
EP - 14223
JO - Journal of Materials Chemistry A
JF - Journal of Materials Chemistry A
IS - 29
ER -
