Dye-sensitized nanocrystalline solar cells incorporating ethylmethylimidazolium-based ionic liquid electrolytes Dai, Qing, Menzies, David B., MacFarlane, Douglas R., Batten, Stuart R., Forsyth, Stewart, Spiccia, Leone, Cheng, Yi-Bing and Forsyth, Maria 2006, Dye-sensitized nanocrystalline solar cells incorporating ethylmethylimidazolium-based ionic liquid electrolytes, Comptes rendus chimie, vol. 9, no. 5-6, pp. 617-621, doi: 10.1016/j.crci.2005.03.028. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Dye-sensitized nanocrystalline solar cells incorporating ethylmethylimidazolium-based ionic liquid electrolytes Author(s) Dai, Qing Menzies, David B. MacFarlane, Douglas R. Batten, Stuart R. Forsyth, Stewart Spiccia, Leone Cheng, Yi-Bing Forsyth, Maria orcid.org/0000-0002-4273-8105 Journal name Comptes rendus chimie Volume number 9 Issue number 5-6 Start page 617 End page 621 Publisher Elsevier Place of publication Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publication date 2006-05 ISSN 1631-0748 1878-1543 Keyword(s) ionic liquids dye-sensitized solar cells electrolyte viscosity conductivity electrochemical windows Summary High-performance dye-sensitized solar cells incorporating electrochemically stable non-volatile electrolytes are especially desirable devices. In particular, ionic liquid systems based on ethylmethylimidazolium dicyanamide seem to be promising for this purpose. These have triggered our interest in the properties of further ethylmethylimidazolium-based ionic liquids with anions which are close relatives of dicyanamide. In this study, the effect of three different anions, tricyanomethanide, dicyanamide and thiocyanate, on the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells have been investigated. Both the short circuit photocurrent and conversion efficiency are increased with decreasing viscosity of the ionic liquids under comparable conditions. A conversion efficiency of 2.1% at 30% light intensity was observed for the cell containing the tricyanomethanide salt, which has lowest viscosity among the three ionic liquids, while efficiencies of 0.7% and 1.7% at the same light intensity were observed in the case of dicyanamide and thiocyanate salts, respectively, as an electrolyte. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.crci.2005.03.028 Field of Research 039999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970103 Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2005, Académie des sciences Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30030096 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Institute for Technology Research and Innovation GTP Research Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 10 Sep 2010, 15:08:24 EST Wed, 13 Oct 2010, 10:30:29 EST Wed, 13 Oct 2010, 10:31:42 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 16:21:27 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 49 times in TR Web of Science Cited 50 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1066 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 10 Sep 2010, 15:08:23 EST