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Recovery of FTO coated glass substrate via environment-friendly facile recycling perovskite solar cells

Organic–inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have recently emerged as a potential candidate for large-scale and low-cost photovoltaic devices. However, the technology is still susceptible to degradation issues and toxicity concerns due to the presence of lead (Pb). Therefore, investigation on ide...

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Autores principales: Chowdhury, M. S., Rahman, Kazi Sajedur, Selvanathan, Vidhya, Hasan, A. K. Mahmud, Jamal, M. S., Samsudin, Nurul Asma, Akhtaruzzaman, Md., Amin, Nowshad, Techato, Kuaanan
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Publicado: The Royal Society of Chemistry 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8697776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35423997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ra00338k
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author Chowdhury, M. S.
Rahman, Kazi Sajedur
Selvanathan, Vidhya
Hasan, A. K. Mahmud
Jamal, M. S.
Samsudin, Nurul Asma
Akhtaruzzaman, Md.
Amin, Nowshad
Techato, Kuaanan
author_facet Chowdhury, M. S.
Rahman, Kazi Sajedur
Selvanathan, Vidhya
Hasan, A. K. Mahmud
Jamal, M. S.
Samsudin, Nurul Asma
Akhtaruzzaman, Md.
Amin, Nowshad
Techato, Kuaanan
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description Organic–inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have recently emerged as a potential candidate for large-scale and low-cost photovoltaic devices. However, the technology is still susceptible to degradation issues and toxicity concerns due to the presence of lead (Pb). Therefore, investigation on ideal methods to deal with PSC wastes once the device attains its end-of-life is crucial and to recycle the components within the cell is the most cost effective and energy effective method by far. This paper reported on a layer-by-layer extraction approach to recycle the fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) coated glass substrate which is the most expensive component in the device architecture of mesoporous planar PSC. By adapting the sequential removal of each layer, chemical properties of individual components, including spiro-OMeTAD and gold can be preserved, enabling the material to be easily reused. It also ensured that the toxic Pb component could be isolated without contaminating other materials. The removal of all individual layers allows the retrieval of FTO conductive glass which can be used in various applications that are not only restricted to photovoltaics. Comparison of electrical, morphological and physical properties of recycled FTO glasses to commercial ones revealed minimal variations. This confirmed that the recycling approach was useful in retrieving the substrate without affecting its physicochemical properties.
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spelling pubmed-86977762022-04-13 Recovery of FTO coated glass substrate via environment-friendly facile recycling perovskite solar cells Chowdhury, M. S. Rahman, Kazi Sajedur Selvanathan, Vidhya Hasan, A. K. Mahmud Jamal, M. S. Samsudin, Nurul Asma Akhtaruzzaman, Md. Amin, Nowshad Techato, Kuaanan RSC Adv Chemistry Organic–inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have recently emerged as a potential candidate for large-scale and low-cost photovoltaic devices. However, the technology is still susceptible to degradation issues and toxicity concerns due to the presence of lead (Pb). Therefore, investigation on ideal methods to deal with PSC wastes once the device attains its end-of-life is crucial and to recycle the components within the cell is the most cost effective and energy effective method by far. This paper reported on a layer-by-layer extraction approach to recycle the fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) coated glass substrate which is the most expensive component in the device architecture of mesoporous planar PSC. By adapting the sequential removal of each layer, chemical properties of individual components, including spiro-OMeTAD and gold can be preserved, enabling the material to be easily reused. It also ensured that the toxic Pb component could be isolated without contaminating other materials. The removal of all individual layers allows the retrieval of FTO conductive glass which can be used in various applications that are not only restricted to photovoltaics. Comparison of electrical, morphological and physical properties of recycled FTO glasses to commercial ones revealed minimal variations. This confirmed that the recycling approach was useful in retrieving the substrate without affecting its physicochemical properties. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2021-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8697776/ /pubmed/35423997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ra00338k Text en This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
spellingShingle Chemistry
Chowdhury, M. S.
Rahman, Kazi Sajedur
Selvanathan, Vidhya
Hasan, A. K. Mahmud
Jamal, M. S.
Samsudin, Nurul Asma
Akhtaruzzaman, Md.
Amin, Nowshad
Techato, Kuaanan
Recovery of FTO coated glass substrate via environment-friendly facile recycling perovskite solar cells
title Recovery of FTO coated glass substrate via environment-friendly facile recycling perovskite solar cells
title_full Recovery of FTO coated glass substrate via environment-friendly facile recycling perovskite solar cells
title_fullStr Recovery of FTO coated glass substrate via environment-friendly facile recycling perovskite solar cells
title_full_unstemmed Recovery of FTO coated glass substrate via environment-friendly facile recycling perovskite solar cells
title_short Recovery of FTO coated glass substrate via environment-friendly facile recycling perovskite solar cells
title_sort recovery of fto coated glass substrate via environment-friendly facile recycling perovskite solar cells
topic Chemistry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8697776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35423997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1ra00338k
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