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Rapid charge transport in dye-sensitized solar cells made from vertically aligned single-crystal rutile TiO(2)
Xinjian Feng1, Kai Zhu, Arthur J Frank
1Department of Chemistry, Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802, USA.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|February 4, 2012
Abstract:
A rapid solvothermal approach was used to synthesize aligned 1D single-crystal rutile TiO(2) nanowire (NW) arrays on transparent conducting substrates as electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells. The NW arrays showed a more than 200 times faster charge transport and a factor four lower defect state density than conventional rutile nanoparticle films.

