Preparation of PAA‐g‐PEG/PANI polymer gel electrolyte and its application in quasi solid state dye‐sensitized solar cells |
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| Authors: | Qin Liu Jihuai Wu Zhang Lan Min Zheng Gentian Yue Jianming Lin Miaoliang Huang |
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| Affiliation: | Engineering Research Center of Environment‐Friendly Functional Materials, Ministry of Education, Institute of Materials Physical Chemistry, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, China |
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| Abstract: | A microporous hybrid polymer of poly(acrylic acid)‐g‐poly(ethylene glycol)/polyaniline (PAA‐g‐PEG/PANI) is synthesized by a two‐step solution polymerization method. The influence of aniline concentration on the conductivity of PAA‐g‐PEG/PANI gel electrolyte is discussed, when the concentration of aniline is 0.66 wt%, the conductivity of PAA‐g‐PEG/PANI gel electrolyte is 11.50 mS cm?1. Using this gel electrolyte as host, a quasi solid state dye‐sensitized solar cell (QS‐DSSC) is assembled. The QS‐DSSC based on this gel electrolyte achieves a power conversion efficiency of 6.38% under a simulated solar illumination of 100 mW cm?2 (AM 1.5). POLYM. ENG. SCI., 55:322–326, 2015. © 2014 Society of Plastics Engineers |
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