After two decades of research, the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells seems to have reached a plateau. Now, changing both electrolyte and dye opens up new opportunities that offer the hope that the efficiency ceiling can be broken.
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Elliott, C. Out with both baby and bathwater. Nature Chem 3, 188–189 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.986
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