Facile construction of nanofibrous ZnO photoelectrode for dye-sensitized solar cell applications

Zhang, Wei, Zhu, Rui, Liu, Xizhe , Liu, Bin and Ramakrishna, Seeram (2009) Facile construction of nanofibrous ZnO photoelectrode for dye-sensitized solar cell applications. Applied Physics Letters, 95 (4). 043304. ISSN 0003-6951

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Abstract

A facile method to prepare nanofibrous ZnO photoelectrodes with tunable thicknesses by
electrospinning is reported. A “self-relaxation layer” is formed spontaneously between ZnO
nanofibers and fluorine-doped SnO2 FTO substrate, which facilitates the release of interfacial tensile stress during calcination, resulting in good adhesion of ZnO film to FTO substrate. Dye-sensitized solar cells DSSCs based on the nanofibrous ZnO photoelectrodes are fabricated and an energy conversion efficiency of 3.02% is achieved under irradiation of AM 1.5 simulated sunlight with a power density of 100 mW cm−2, which shows good promise of electrospun nanofibrous ZnO as the photoelectrode in DSSCs.

Keywords:nanofibrous ZnO, photoelectrodes, dye-sensitized solar cell, electrospinning
Subjects:F Physical Sciences > F200 Materials Science
F Physical Sciences > F120 Inorganic Chemistry
F Physical Sciences > F110 Applied Chemistry
Divisions:College of Science > School of Chemistry
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Deposited On:25 Mar 2016 21:04

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