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Electrodeposited MnO2-NiO Composites as a Pt Free Counter Electrode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

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Manganese oxide-Nickel oxide (MnO2-NiO) has been successfully deposited on Fluorine doped Tin Oxide (FTO) glass electrode using a facile, effective and low cost electrodeposition process and was used as counter electrode (CE) in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). The cells were characterized using electrochemical impedance spectra and cyclic voltammetry, which revealed enhanced electrocatalytic ability for the reduction of triiodide/iodide (I −3 to I−). Further, the photocurrent–voltage (J–V) characteristics under the illumination of 100 mW/cm2 were studied. The DSSC with MnO2-NiO CE revealed higher short-circuit current density (Jsc) of 0.3 mA/cm2, open-circuit voltage (Voc) of 0.83 V, and fill factor of 0.84. This suggests that the electrodeposited MnO2-NiO coated FTO electrode can be used to replace the commonly employed and expensive metal platinum (Pt) in DSSC.

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The author Karan Surana is thankful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for providing the Senior Research Fellowship (SRF, 9/1078(0002)/18 EMR-I).

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  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Sunanda Kakroo

  2. Material Research Laboratory, School of Basic Sciences and Research, Sharda University, Greater Noida, U.P., 201310, India

    Sunanda Kakroo, Karan Surana & Bhaskar Bhattacharya

  3. Department of Physics, MMV, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P., 221005, India

    Bhaskar Bhattacharya

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Kakroo, S., Surana, K. & Bhattacharya, B. Electrodeposited MnO2-NiO Composites as a Pt Free Counter Electrode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. J. Electron. Mater. 49, 2197–2202 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-019-07925-w

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