Journal
JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY
Volume 186, Issue -, Pages 261-267Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2011.12.013
Keywords
Copper oxide; Nanofibers; Electrospinning; DSSC; Catalysis; Band-gap
Funding
- Singapore NRF-CRP
- NUSNNI
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Electrospun copper based composite nanofibers were synthesized using the copper acetate/polyvinyl alcohol/water solution as starting material. Synthesized composite nanofibers were sintered at 500 degrees C to obtain CuO nanofibers. XRD, FTIR and XPS techniques were used to confirm the presence of pure CuO nanostructures. The effect of annealing cycle on the crystalline structure of the CuO nanofibers was analyzed and observed that the decrease in crystallite size with an increase in the dwelling time improved the orientation of the CuO crystallite. The blue-shift in the band-gap energies of CuO nanofibers was observed as a result of quantum confinement from bulk CuO (1.2 eV) to one dimensional (1D) nanostructures (similar to 1.746 eV). The catalytic activity of the CuO fibers for the degradation of methyl orange was carried out and as a blocking layer in ZnO based DSSC was fabricated and observed a similar to 25% increase in the current density. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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