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JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY
Volume 199, Issue 1, Pages 1-7Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2008.04.007
Keywords
template; co-polymer; nanoporous NiO; dye-sensitization; p-type
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We prepared nanoporous NiO films from NiCl2 in water/erhanol mixed solution, using a series of polyethyleneoxide-polypropyleneoxide-polyethyleneoxide (PEO-PPO-PEO) triblock co-polymers as template, and examined them as p-type NiO electrodes sensitized with a merocyanine dye. Triblock co-polymers with high PEO/PPO ratio leaded to three-fold higher photocurrent in comparison with low PEO/PPO polymers. Use of high PEO/PPO templates resulted in NiO membrane structure formed by uniformly distributed NiO nano particles with small interparticle voids, giving large surface area for dye adsorption, while low PEO/PPO templates resulted in larger void Volume and less surface area. Photocurrent under simulated solar light was sum of the currents generated by NiO direct excitation and by dye-sensitization at spectra below 450 nm and from 450 to 590 nm, respectively. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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