How many characterization should I do to characterize counter electrode for DSSC application?

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I am researching counter electrodes for DSSC application. How many characterization must I do? If I have characterized using EIS, must I characterize using cyclic voltametry?

Sujoy Sarkar

Yeh, you should do CV also. Go through this review, it might help you.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2014/ta/c3ta13374e

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