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Title: | One-Step Fabrication of Unique Mesoporous NiO Hollow Sphere Film on FTO for High-Performance P-Type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells | Authors: | Yang, Hong Bin Liu, Bin Khoo, Si Yun Zhu, Lin Nan Guo, Chun Xian Dong, Yong Qiang Li, Chang Ming |
Keywords: | hollow sphere dye-sensitized solar cells |
Issue Date: | 2014 | Source: | Yang, H. B., Liu, B., Khoo, S. Y., Zhu, L. N., Guo, C. X., Dong, Y. Q., et al. (2014). One-Step Fabrication of Unique Mesoporous NiO Hollow Sphere Film on FTO for High-Performance P-Type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 1(3), 1300110-. | Series/Report no.: | Advanced Materials Interfaces | Abstract: | P-type dye sensitized solar cells (p-DSCs) deliver much lower overall efficiency than their inverse model, n-DSCs. However, they have fundamental and practical significance, in particular, their tandem structured solar cells with both p- and n-photoelectrodes could offer great potential to significantly improve the efficiency of existing solar cells. A facile and environmentally friendly method is developed to directly one-step grow hollow NiO spherical structures on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate, in which a Ni2+ and polymer complex spherical structure is self-constructed through a controlled solvent evaporation process, followed by calcination-converting to a unique NiO hollow sphere film. The prepared material is further used as a photocathode in p-type dye sensitized solar cells, resulting in 41% increase of an open-circuit voltage and 18% enhancement of power conversion efficiency than NiO nanoparticles photocathode. The improved performance can be ascribed to suppressed charge recombination at the photocathode/electrolyte interface. This template-free approach could be universally used to fabricate other nanostructured hollow spheres for a wide range of energy conversion applications such as electrochemical capacitors, chemical sensors, and electrochromic devices. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81641 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40869 |
ISSN: | 2196-7350 | DOI: | 10.1002/admi.201300110 | Schools: | School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering | Rights: | © 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. | Fulltext Permission: | none | Fulltext Availability: | No Fulltext |
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