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Published on: June 28, 2017
Hierarchical TiO2 photoanode for dye-sensitized solar cells
F Sauvage1, F Di Fonzo, A Li Bassi
1Institut des Sciences et Ingenieurie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Hierarchical or one-dimensional architectures are among the most exciting developments in material science these recent years. We present a nanostructured TiO(2) assembly combining these two concepts and resembling a forest composed of individual, high aspect-ratio, treelike nanostructures. We propose to use these structures for the photoanode in dye-sensitized solar cells, and we achieved 4.9% conversion efficiency in combination with C101 dye. We demonstrate this morphology beneficial to hamper the electron recombination and also mass transport control in the mesopores when solvent-free ionic liquid electrolyte is used.
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