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A simple gelating process is developed for the conventional acetonitrile-based electrolyte of dye solar cells, based on ethyl cellulose as the gelator. The electrolyte becomes quasi-solid-state upon addition of an ethanolic solution of ethyl cellulose to the conventional acetonitrile-based liquid electrolyte. The photovoltaic conversion efficiency with the new gel electrolyte is only slightly lower than with the liquid electrolyte, e.g., 6.5 % for liquid electrolyte versus 5.9 % for gel electrolyte with 5.8 wt% added ethyl cellulose. Electrolyte gelation has small effect on the ionic diffusion coefficient of iodide, and the devices are remarkably stable for at least 550 h under irradiation... 

This paper concerns extending applicability of Dehaghani association equation of state (in short DA-EOS) to model non-ideality in phase behavior caused by hydrogen bonding. Advantageously, this equation only needs two and one parameters to treat self- and cross association, respectively, which were determined for methanol/water and ethanol/water mixture in this study. In this respect, DA was coupled with PR and SRK EOS to account for physical interaction between molecules. Notably, DA-PR persistently provides more accurate prediction than DA-SRK for both aqueous methanol and ethanol solutions