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The purpose of this study was to identify stable metal based counter electrodes (CE) for dye solar cells (DSC). Previous studies have shown that stainless steel (StS 304) suffers from corrosion when used as a counter electrode. Therefore metals which have inherently higher corrosion resistance, such as stainless steel types 321, 316 and 316L, Inconel 600 and titanium, were investigated here. When using thermal platinization for the preparation of the catalyst layer on CE, only the titanium foil based metal based DSC remained consistently stable in the 1000 h light soaking test. The counter electrodes were also pre- pared with sputtering
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Here's a way to improve the stability of dye solar cells
Professor Peter D. Lund
Aalto University
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This page is a summary of: Stabilization of metal counter electrodes for dye solar cells, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, April 2011, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2010.12.022.
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