Biodegradable rice starch was used to prepare solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) using
sodium iodide salt. The polymer electrolytes are prepared using solution cast technique. 1-methyl…

… conducting species, in which Z is the valency of ion, k is the Boltzmann constant, m is the
mass of ionic carrier, n is the number density of mobile ions, and τ 0 is the free ion lifetime. In Eq…

… The version of this Article previously published quoted an incorrect email address for
Mohammad Hassan Khanmirzaei. Correspondence and request for materials should also be …

… conductivity (σ) of the gel polymer electrolytes using EIS data:(1) σ = L R b A where σ is
the ionic conductivity (S cm −1 ) of the GPEs, L is the thickness of the stainless steel cell, R b …

… where σ is ionic conductivity (S cm −1 ), σ 0 is pre-exponential factor, T is the absolute
temperature (K), k is the Boltzmann constant, and E a is the activation energy (eV). Figure 1 shows …

… the activation energy, k (eV K −1 ) is the Boltzmann constant and T is the temperature in
Kelvin. Table 1 shows the calculated activation energies for all the gel polymer electrolytes with …

Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) were prepared using rice starch as the polymer, sodium
iodide (NaI) as the salt and 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium iodide (HMII) as the ionic liquid (IL). …

A new poly (acrylonitrile) (PAN)-based gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) is fabricated to study the
effect of carbon nanotube (CNT) on dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) efficiency. The GPEs …

… Moreover, this work is showing significant enhancement of efficiency compared with some
recent works on DSSCs using natural polymers: Khanmirzaei et al. (2015), using pure rice …

… Although there is an improvement on the stability of DSSCs using GPEs, it is found that the
… where σ is the ionic conductivity (S cm −1 ), L is the thickness of the sample in cm, R b is the …