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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.
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