Colloidal synthesis of wurtz-stannite Cu2CdGeS4 nanocrystals with high catalytic activity toward iodine redox couples in dye-sensitized solar cells

Shoushuang Huang; Jiantao Zai; Dui Ma; Qingquan He; Yuanyuan Liu; Qiquan Qiao; Xuefeng Qian

doi:10.1039/c6cc05163d

Colloidal synthesis of wurtz-stannite Cu2CdGeS4 nanocrystals with high catalytic activity toward iodine redox couples in dye-sensitized solar cells

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Sep 18;52(72):10866-9. doi: 10.1039/c6cc05163d. Epub 2016 Aug 15.

Authors

Shoushuang Huang¹, Jiantao Zai, Dui Ma, Qingquan He, Yuanyuan Liu, Qiquan Qiao, Xuefeng Qian

Affiliation

¹ Shanghai Electrochemical Energy Devices Research Center, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, P. R. China. xfqian@sjtu.edu.cn zaijiantao@sjtu.edu.cn.

PMID: 27524660
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc05163d

Abstract

Wurtz-stannite Cu2CdGeS4 nanocrystals were synthesized via a facile hot-injection method at a low temperature. They exhibited low charge transfer resistance at the electrolyte-electrode interface and high electrocatalytic activity for the reduction of I3(-) in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Moreover, this DSSC showed a power conversion efficiency of 7.67%, comparable to the Pt-based device (7.54%).