Fabrication and photovoltaic properties of heterostructured TiO2 nanowires.
J Nanosci Nanotechnol
; 12(7): 6065-8, 2012 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
One-dimensional heterostructured TiO2 nanowires were successfully fabricated by an electrospinning technique and modified by hydrolysis. We investigated their structure, morphology, chemical composition, and optical properties by using the X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and UV-vis spectroscopy. In the case of the photovoltaic performance, the short-circuit current density and cell efficiency of the DSSCs employing single TiO2 nanowires and heterostructured TiO2 nanowires improve from 6.90 to 11.38 mA/cm2 and from 2.56 to 4.29%, respectively. The results show that the photoconversion efficiency of the heterostructured TiO2 nanowires could be improved by more than approximately 67% compared to that of the single TiO2 nanowires because of the enhanced specific surface area that facilitates dye adsorption.
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