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)

name
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


 * Dye-sensitized solar cell only seems to describe SC producing electricity ie PV. ? - Rod57 (talk) 17:58, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

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)

Vanadates - 2017
New materials could turn water into the fuel of the future 2017 seems to have found 12 vanadates that act as photoanodes. When were they first studied ? - Rod57 (talk) 17:51, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

"Photogeneration Cell"
There is no device called a photogeneration cell. No reference has been found except Revolvy.com, and the info there is is based on this article, see edit by Kuru on 6/29/2019.

Photogeneration of carriers, esp. electron-hole pairs, is a well-known and much studied phenomena that occurs within photovoltaic cells, and it is a term almost exclusive to the discipline of photovoltaic engineering/science.

I'm not sure how the "photogeneration cell" got into this article, since, again, a device of that particular name doesn't exist.

I did a double-check on this and was not able to identify clear instances of "photogeneration cell" in any scientific work. If anyone can, and they feel strongly that they can prove otherwise, I welcome the disagreement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.205.122 (talk) 08:04, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Oxygen evolution reaction error
I added a coefficient of 1/2 for to balance the number of oxygens in the reaction in "Two principles". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nadavs (talk • contribs) 10:21, 6 February 2020 (UTC)