High-Efficiency Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Fast Charge Extraction through Self-Assembled 3D Fibrous Network of Crystalline TiO 2 Nanowires

Nicolas Tétreault, Endre Horváth, Thomas Moehl, Jérémie Brillet, Rita Smajda, Stéphane Bungener, Ning Cai, Peng Wang, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Michael Grätzel

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Abstract

Herein, we present a novel morphology for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells based on the simple and straightforward self-assembly of nanorods into a 3D fibrous network of fused single-crystalline anatase nanowires. This architecture offers a high roughness factor, significant light scattering, and up to several orders of magnitude faster electron transport to reach a near-record-breaking conversion efficiency of 4.9%. © 2010 American Chemical Society.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)7644-7650
Number of pages7
JournalACS Nano
Volume4
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 17 2010
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUS-C1-015-21
Acknowledgements: This publication was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, Award No KUS-C1-015-21). J.B. received financial support from a Marie Curie Research Training Network, Hydrogen Project (MRTN-CT-2006-032474). N.C. and P.W. thank the financial support from the National Key Scientific Program (No. 2007CB936700) and the National Science Foundation of China (No. 50973105). This work was partially supported by the european project MULTIPLAT (NMP4-SL-2009-228943). T.M. acknowledges the ECR advanced grant agreement (No. 247404) under the CE-Mesolight project funded by the European community's 7th FWP.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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