New Progress in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) has the advantages of low cost, non-toxic and non-polluting, mild manufacturing process conditions, and suitable for large-area continuous production. It is currently the research hotspot of new solar cells. The semiconductor photoanode with a nanoporous structure is a core part of the DSSC. The use of ordered, multifunctional new nanostructures to replace the traditional disordered photoanodes composed of nanoparticles is the frontier and difficult point in the basic research field of DSSC.

The Shanghai State Key Laboratory of High-Performance Ceramics and Ultramicrostructure of Shanghai Silicate has recently made a series of new developments in DSSC nanostructured photoanodes. The research team led by Li Xiaoming researcher and Gao Xiangdong associate researcher developed a variety of ordered photoanodes based on TiO2 nanotube arrays and new composite photoanode materials based on aerogel structures.