Physicochemical properties of polyaniline-ionic liquid mixtures and their application in dye-sensitized solar cells

Pankaj Attri; Dae Hoon Park; Seung Hyun Lee; Young Sun Kim; Young Beom Kim; Gi Chung Kwon; Wooyeol Choi; Yongseok Jun; Hae Seok Lee; Eun Ha Choi; In Tae Kim

doi:10.1166/sam.2015.2577

Physicochemical properties of polyaniline-ionic liquid mixtures and their application in dye-sensitized solar cells

Pankaj Attri, Dae Hoon Park, Seung Hyun Lee, Young Sun Kim, Young Beom Kim, Gi Chung Kwon, Wooyeol Choi, Yongseok Jun, Hae Seok Lee, Eun Ha Choi, In Tae Kim

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Abstract

In this study, we investigated the interactions between the ionic liquids (ILs) of ammonium and imidazolium families and polyaniline-emeraldine base [PANI (EB)]. PANI (EB) is one of the most studied conducting polymers owing to its applications in electronics, optical devices, sensors, etc. However, there is a massive scope of improvement in this area. In order to increase the utility of PANI (EB), we studied the interactions between PANI (EB) and ILs by using various techniques. Further, we studied the conductivity, morphology, and roughness of PANI (EB)-IL mixtures. We observed that ammonium- and imidazolium-family ILs have the potential to interact with PANI (EB). However, after the interactions, the ammonium-family IL-PANI (EB) mixtures showed more conductivity than the imidazolium-family IL-PANI (EB) mixtures. We also determined the strength of hydrogen bonding between ILs and PANI (EB) from semiempirical calculations carried out using HyperChem 7. Finally, we demonstrated that PANI (EB)-IL additives can be used as electrolytes in dye-sensitized solar cells. This study provides an insight into the combined effect of a polymer [PANI (EB)] and ILs, and this insight may generate many theoretical and experimental opportunities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2583-2595
Number of pages	13
Journal	Science of Advanced Materials
Volume	7
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1166/sam.2015.2577
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) (NRF-2010-0027963). This work was also supported by a New & Renewable Energy of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korean government Ministry of Knowledge Economy (No. 96002011003) and by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE), Korea, under the project titled "Full color 360 degree 3D holographic video making technology" and by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (MCST) and Korea Creative Contents Agency (KOCCA) under the Culture Technology Research & Development Program 2012, and in part by Kwangwoon University 2015.

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© 2015 by American Scientific Publisher.

Keywords

Dye-sensitized solar cells
Ionic liquids
Polyaniline-emeraldine base

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Physicochemical properties of polyaniline-ionic liquid mixtures and their application in dye-sensitized solar cells

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