One-pot,large-scale synthesis silica-encapsulated NIR alloy quantum dots CdSeTe within short time |
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Authors: | Cuiling Ren Haosen Yuan Yifang Yang Hongli Chen Yonglei Chen Shengda Qi Xingguo Chen |
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Institution: | 1. School of Advanced Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500 757, South Korea 2. Thin Film Materials Laboratory, Department of Physics, Shivaji University Kolhapur, Kolhapur, India
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Abstract: | Hydrothermal process has been employed to synthesize titanium oxide (TiO2) bottle brush. The nanostructured bottle brushes with tetragonal nanorods of ~75 nm diameter have been synthesized by changing the nature of the precursors and hydrothermal processing parameters. The morphological features and structural properties of TiO2 films were investigated by field emission scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, high-resolution transmission electron spectroscopy, Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The influence of such nanostructures on the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) is investigated in detail. The interface and transient properties of these nanorods and bottle brush-based photoanodes in DSSCs were analyzed by electrochemical impedance spectroscopic measurements in order to understand the critical factors contributing to such high power conversion efficiency. Surface area of sample was recorded using Brunauer–Emmett–Teller measurements. It is found that bottle brush provides effective large surface area 89.34 m2 g?1 which is much higher than TiO2 nanorods 63.7 m2 g?1. Such effective surface area can facilitate the effective light harvesting, and hence improves the dye adsorption and the photovoltaic performance of DSSCs, typically in short-circuit photocurrent and power conversion efficiency. A best power conversion efficiency of 6.63 % has been achieved. We believe that the present device performance would have wide interests in dye-sensitized solar cell research. |
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