Stretchable, wearable dye-sensitized solar cells

Zhibin Yang; Jue Deng; Xuemei Sun; Houpu Li; Huisheng Peng

doi:10.1002/adma.201400152

Stretchable, wearable dye-sensitized solar cells

Adv Mater. 2014 May;26(17):2643-7, 2613. doi: 10.1002/adma.201400152. Epub 2014 Mar 20.

Authors

Zhibin Yang¹, Jue Deng, Xuemei Sun, Houpu Li, Huisheng Peng

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China.

PMID: 24648169
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201400152

Abstract

A stretchable, wearable dye-sensitized solar-cell textile is developed from elastic, electrically conducting fiber as a counter electrode and spring-like titanium wire as the working electrode. Dyesensitized solar cells are demonstrated with energy-conversion efficiencies up to 7.13%. The high energy-conversion efficiencies can be well maintained under stretch by 30% and after stretch for 20 cycles.

Keywords: carbon nanotube; elastic fiber electrode; photovoltaic textile; stretchable.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Elastic Modulus
Electric Power Supplies*
Electrodes*
Energy Transfer
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Miniaturization
Nanotubes, Carbon / chemistry*
Nanotubes, Carbon / ultrastructure
Rubber / chemistry
Solar Energy*
Textiles*

Substances

Nanotubes, Carbon
Rubber