Talk:Photoelectrochemical cell

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Note: Someone put "dye-absorbed", I switched it into "dye-adsorbed" (with a d rather than b) because adsorb is to adhere to (the dye molecules are attatched to the surface of the nanocrystals) whereas absorb is to diffuse into. Anyone reading this, please remember that. It is very important. Kr5t 20:12, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

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right name for the second type of cell : photocatalyst cell ? . Mion 16:42, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

I am doing a term paper on Polymers in PECs and browsed past the wikipedia entry on PECs. I think this page should be linked up with Dye Sensitized Solar Cells as they are a type of PEC (almost all PECs currently under investigation are DSSCs). Also, I think it will be hard to capture all the info there is on PECs and DSSCs in a wikipedia article because of the scale of current research efforts, so I think a more thorough references section will be useful to people wanting to find out more. Here are some references I found that give a good overview/introduction:

 *  Michael Gratzel.  Photoelectrochemical Cells.  Nature, Vol 414, 15 November 2001.  
 *  Michael Gratzel.  Solar Energy Conversion By Dye-Sensitized Photovoltaic Cells.  Inorganic Chemistry, 2005, vol 44, 6841-6851.  
 *  Juan Bisquert, David Cahen, Gary Hodes, Sven Ru1hle, and Arie Zaban.  Physical Chemical Principles of Photovoltaic Conversion with Nanoparticulate, Mesoporous Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.  J. Phys. Chem. B 2004, 108, 8106-8118

~Greg Larsen

Question about 10% Efficiency Barrier This article mentions the "10% efficiency barrier" but doesn't elaborate...whose barrier is this? DOE? Some other physical limit? Anyone can explain? Yomain 03:32, 11 June 2007 (UTC)