A {0001} faceted single crystal NiS nanosheet electrocatalyst for dye-sensitised solar cells: sulfur-vacancy induced electrocatalytic activity
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Yibing Li1, Haifeng Wang, Haimin Zhang
1Centre for Clean Environment and Energy, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, QLD 4222, Australia. haimin.zhang@griffith.edu.au h.zhao@griffith.edu.au.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 15, 2014
Abstract:
Hydrothermally synthesised single crystal NiS nanosheets with an exposed (0001) surface exhibited a light conversion efficiency of 8.62% as an electrocatalyst for dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs), significantly higher than that of Pt-based DSSCs (7.36%). The theoretical calculations revealed the exposed (0001) surface with superior catalytic activity owing to the existence of sulfur vacancies.
