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DOI: 10.1002/chem.201103904 SnS-Quantum Dot Solar Cells Using Novel TiC Counter Electrode and Organic Redox Couples Wei Guo, Yihua Shen, Mingxing Wu, Liang Wang, Linlin Wang, and Tingli Ma*[a] Abstract: Low-cost quantum-dot sensi- Charge-extraction results reveal the gated using Tafel polarization and elec- tized solar cells (QDSSCs) were fabri- reasons for the difference in JSC in trochemical impedance analysis. These results indicated that Pt and TiC show cated by using the earth-abundant ele- three QDSSCs based on I /I , T /T , 3 2 ment SnS quantum dot, novel TiC and S2/Sx2 redox couples. The catalyt- a similar catalytic selectivity for I/I3. counter electrodes, and the organic di- ic selectivity of TiC and Pt towards T2/ However, TiC possesses better catalytic T activity for T sulfide/thiolate (T2/T ) redox couple, and I /I3 redox couples was investi- 2/T than for I /I3 . These and reached an efficiency of 1.03 %. results indicate the great potential of QDSSCs based on I transition metal carbide materials and /I , T /T , and 2 2 3 2 Keywords: carbides · energy con- S /Sx redox couples were assembled