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Natural dye sensitized TiO2 nanorods assembly of broccoli shape based solar cells.
Yuvapragasam, Akila; Muthukumarasamy, N; Agilan, S; Velauthapillai, Dhayalan; Senthil, T S; Sundaram, Senthilarasu.
Afiliação
  • Yuvapragasam A; Department of Physics, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address: akilayuva@gmail.com.
  • Muthukumarasamy N; Department of Physics, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address: vishnukutty2002@yahoo.co.in.
  • Agilan S; Department of Physics, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address: santhanam.agilan@gmail.com.
  • Velauthapillai D; Department of Engineering, University College of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. Electronic address: dhayalan.velauthapillai@hib.no.
  • Senthil TS; Department of Physics, Erode Sengunthar College, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India. Electronic address: tssenthi@gmail.com.
  • Sundaram S; Renewable Energy, Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, UK. Electronic address: s.sundaram@exeter.ac.uk.
J Photochem Photobiol B ; 148: 223-231, 2015 Jul.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25974906
TiO2 nanorods based thin films with rutile phase have been synthesized using template free low temperature hydrothermal method. The scanning electron microscope images showed that the prepared TiO2 samples were made of TiO2 nanorods and the nanorods had arranged by itself to form a broccoli like shape. The X-ray diffraction studies revealed that the prepared TiO2 samples exhibit rutile phase. The grown TiO2 nanorods had been sensitized using the flowers of Sesbania (S) grandiflora, leaves of Camellia (C) sinensis and roots of Rubia (R) tinctorum. Dye sensitized solar cells had been fabricated using the natural dye sensitized TiO2 nanorods based thin film photoelectrode and the open circuit voltage and short circuit current density were found to lie in the range of 0.45-0.6 V and 5.6-6.4 mA/cm(2) respectively. The photovoltaic performance of all the fabricated natural dye sensitized TiO2 solar cells indicate that natural dyes have the potential to be used as effective sensitizer in dye sensitized solar cells.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Energia Solar / Titânio / Nanotubos / Corantes Idioma: En Revista: J Photochem Photobiol B Ano de publicação: 2015 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Energia Solar / Titânio / Nanotubos / Corantes Idioma: En Revista: J Photochem Photobiol B Ano de publicação: 2015 Tipo de documento: Article