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Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Advances, 93(4), p. 51374-51380, 2014

DOI: 10.1039/c4ra07908f

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Investigation of the regeneration kinetics of organic dyes with pyridine ring anchoring groups by scanning electrochemical microscopy

Journal article published in 2014 by Getachew Alemu, Jin Cui, Kun Cao, Junpeng Li, Yan Shen, Mingkui Wang ORCID
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Abstract

This work reports on a study of regeneration kinetics of organic dyes with pyridine ring group sensitized NiO electrodes in combination with iodide-based and organic thiolate-based electrolytes by scanning electrochemical microscopy (SCEM) with a feedback model. These dyes have showed promising performance in p-type dye-sensitized solar cells. The investigation reveals that the anchoring group affects the effective rate constant, showing an efficient dye-regeneration process for the dye with carboxylic acid anchoring groups. Meanwhile, it is worth noting that the regeneration process between the reduced dye and the oxidized state of the thiolate-based electrolyte is much faster than that of the iodide-based electrolyte.