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Flexible photo-anode for flexible dye-sensitized solar battery and preparation method thereof

A technology of dye sensitization and photoanode, which is applied in the direction of photosensitive equipment, capacitor electrodes, circuits, etc., can solve the problems of poor substrate adhesion, high sheet resistance, uneven and dense semiconductor film, etc., and achieve high photoelectric conversion efficiency and use long life effect

Active Publication Date: 2011-01-12
CHINA LUCKY FILM CORP
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Problems solved by technology

[0004] The flexible transparent conductive substrate currently used to prepare flexible DSSC photoanodes is coated with a conductive layer of inorganic metal oxide ITO (indium tin oxide) on the flexible substrate, which has the disadvantages of high sheet resistance and poor flexibility.
The Chinese patent application number 200910074514.0 discloses a transparent conductive film and its preparation method, and discloses that the transparent conductive film can replace the ITO conductive film as the anode of polymer and dye-sensitized solar cells, if it is used for flexible Although the anode of dye-sensitized solar cells can solve the problems of high sheet resistance and poor flexibility, it has the following disadvantages: due to the existence of mesh holes in the metal grid on the flexible transparent conductive substrate, on the one hand, if it is directly coated on its surface If the nanoporous semiconductor film is applied, the semiconductor film is not smooth and compact, and the adhesion to the substrate is also poor, which affects the photoelectric conversion performance of the assembled flexible DSSC; on the other hand, the electrons in the nanoporous semiconductor film at the mesh position cannot Timely transfer to the grid metal wire and external circuit to form a photocurrent, which also affects the photoelectric conversion performance of the assembled flexible DSSC

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Embodiment 1

[0029] 1. Use the known silver salt method to set a silver metal grid on the PET substrate. The thickness of the grid silver line is 4 μm, the width is 40 μm, and the spacing is 2 mm; the polyurethane filler is filled in the mesh by scraping; A polythiophene conductive polymer film with a thickness of 200 nm was then coated to obtain a flexible transparent conductive substrate with a sheet resistance of 0.12Ω / □ and a transmittance of 65.21%.

[0030] 2. take by weighing the nano-titanium dioxide P25 powder that 2.4g Degussa produces and put into the mortar that fills the n-butanol of 15ml, then add 8g ethyl cellulose solid content and be that the n-butanol solution of 10% and 4g PEG20000 solid content are 20% methanol solution, mix well and grind for 4h to make TiO 2 slurry. Print it on the surface of the above-mentioned flexible transparent conductive substrate, and get about 12 μm thick TiO after drying naturally. 2 film. Then put it under a 500W UV lamp for 0.5h to prepa...

Embodiment 2

[0034]1. Use the known magnetron sputtering method to set a copper metal grid on the PET substrate. The thickness of the grid copper wire is 1.2 μm, the width is 80 μm, and the spacing is 4.9 mm; Filling with gelatin filler; and then coating a polypyrrole conductive polymer film with a thickness of 60.5nm to obtain a flexible transparent conductive substrate with a sheet resistance of 5.25Ω / □ and a transmittance of 78.12%.

[0035] 2. Use Zn(Ac) 2 2H 2 O prepared to 0.2mol L -1 Anhydrous ethanol solution, after reflux at 90°C for 4 hours, add LiOH·H at 0°C 2 O powder, so that the concentration is 0.3mol L -1 , stirred at this temperature for 25 minutes to form a colloidal solution of ZnO nanoparticles. Centrifuge in a high-speed centrifuge for 20 minutes, add absolute ethanol to the precipitated ZnO nanoparticles to wash, and then wash with a dilute nitric acid solution with pH=4 to obtain ZnO nanoparticle powder with a particle diameter of 10 nm. Then put it into a morta...

Embodiment 3

[0039] 1. Use the known etching method to set a copper metal grid on the PET substrate. The thickness of the grid copper wire is 6 μm, the width is 5.1 μm, and the spacing is 0.12 mm; the grid is filled with polyvinyl alcohol by scraping Filler; then coat a polythiophene conductive polymer film with a thickness of 198nm to obtain a flexible transparent conductive substrate with a sheet resistance of 9.62Ω / □ and a transmittance of 82.69%.

[0040] 2. Weigh 3.6g of 1mol / L tetrabutyl titanate n-butanol solution and 1.2g of Degussa’s nano-titanium dioxide P25 powder and stir for 6 hours to obtain TiO 2 colloid. It was printed on the conductive layer of the organic conductive polymer film, and after natural drying, a TiO with a thickness of about 14 μm was obtained. 2 film. Then it was boiled in pure water at 100°C for 4h to obtain nano-TiO 2 porous film.

[0041] 3. The prepared TiO 2 The porous film is dipped into a 4 x 10 -5 mol / L of Z907 dye in absolute ethanol, after ads...

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Abstract

The invention relates to a flexible photo-anode for a flexible dye-sensitized solar battery and a preparation method thereof. The flexible photo-anode comprises a flexible transparent conductive substrate and a dye-sensitized nano porous semiconductor film, wherein the flexible transparent conductive substrate is formed by arranging metal grids on a flexible transparent substrate, spreading a bulking agent in meshes of the grids and then overlaying a high molecular conductive polymer film. By spreading the bulking agent in the meshes to flatten the metal grids and overlaying the high molecular conductive film on the metal grids to connect the metal grids into an organic conductive whole, the nano porous semiconductor film prepared on the flexible transparent conductive substrate can be flat and compact. Electrons produced by the battery which is assembled by the prepared flexible photo-anode can be fast transmitted to the external circuit to form a photoelectric current, and the battery has the advantages of high photoelectric transformation efficiency and long service life.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a flexible solar cell technology, in particular to a flexible photoanode for a flexible dye-sensitized solar cell. Background technique [0002] Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC for short) is a new type of low-cost, environment-friendly solar cell and a new scientific research field developed along with the development of semiconductor electrochemistry. Dye-sensitized solar cells are semiconductor optical devices that use dye-sensitized nanoporous semiconductor films as photoanodes to directly convert solar energy into electrical energy. Since 1991, the solar energy research and development group of Professor Gratzel of the Lausanne Institute of Technology in Switzerland successfully developed the dye-sensitized solar cell, after continuous improvement, the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the reported dye-sensitized solar cell has been greatly improved, and has been Reaching 11.9%, the photoelectric conversion efficiency...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): H01G9/04H01G9/20H01M14/00H01L51/44H01L51/48
CPCY02E10/542Y02E10/549
Inventor 田岚侯丽新郑文耀李保民张希堂纪雪梅刘贤豪
Owner CHINA LUCKY FILM CORP