High-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells based on robust and both-end-open TiO2 nanotube membranes

High-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells based on robust and both-end-open TiO2 nanotube membranes

In the present work, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were fabricated by incorporating transparent electrodes of ordered free-standing TiO2 nanotube (TNT) arrays with both ends open transferred onto fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) conductive glass. The high-quality TiO2 membranes used here were obt...

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Main Authors: Lin, Jia, Chen, Jingfei, Chen, Xianfeng
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3211988/
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spelling pubmed-32119882011-11-09 High-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells based on robust and both-end-open TiO2 nanotube membranes Lin, Jia Chen, Jingfei Chen, Xianfeng Nano Express In the present work, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were fabricated by incorporating transparent electrodes of ordered free-standing TiO2 nanotube (TNT) arrays with both ends open transferred onto fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) conductive glass. The high-quality TiO2 membranes used here were obtained by a self-detaching technique, with the superiorities of facile but reliable procedures. Afterwards, these TNT membranes can be easily transferred to FTO glass substrates by TiO2 nanoparticle paste without any crack. Compared with those DSSCs consisting of the bottom-closed membranes or attached to Ti substrate, the carefully assembled and front-side illuminated DSSCs showed an enhanced solar energy conversion efficiency as high as 5.32% of 24-μm-thick TiO2 nanotube membranes without further treatments. These results reveal that by facilitating high-quality membrane synthesis, this kind of DSSCs assembly with optimized tube configuration can have a fascinating future. Springer 2011-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3211988/ /pubmed/21794157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1556-276X-6-475 Text en Copyright ©2011 Lin et al; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Lin, Jia
Chen, Jingfei
Chen, Xianfeng
spellingShingle Lin, Jia
Chen, Jingfei
Chen, Xianfeng
High-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells based on robust and both-end-open TiO2 nanotube membranes
author_facet Lin, Jia
Chen, Jingfei
Chen, Xianfeng
author_sort Lin, Jia
title High-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells based on robust and both-end-open TiO2 nanotube membranes
title_short High-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells based on robust and both-end-open TiO2 nanotube membranes
title_full High-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells based on robust and both-end-open TiO2 nanotube membranes
title_fullStr High-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells based on robust and both-end-open TiO2 nanotube membranes
title_full_unstemmed High-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells based on robust and both-end-open TiO2 nanotube membranes
title_sort high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells based on robust and both-end-open tio2 nanotube membranes
description In the present work, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were fabricated by incorporating transparent electrodes of ordered free-standing TiO2 nanotube (TNT) arrays with both ends open transferred onto fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) conductive glass. The high-quality TiO2 membranes used here were obtained by a self-detaching technique, with the superiorities of facile but reliable procedures. Afterwards, these TNT membranes can be easily transferred to FTO glass substrates by TiO2 nanoparticle paste without any crack. Compared with those DSSCs consisting of the bottom-closed membranes or attached to Ti substrate, the carefully assembled and front-side illuminated DSSCs showed an enhanced solar energy conversion efficiency as high as 5.32% of 24-μm-thick TiO2 nanotube membranes without further treatments. These results reveal that by facilitating high-quality membrane synthesis, this kind of DSSCs assembly with optimized tube configuration can have a fascinating future.
publisher Springer
publishDate 2011
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3211988/
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