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NANOSCALE
Volume 4, Issue 19, Pages 5872-5879Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2nr31431b
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51072170, 21021002]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB932900]
- Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China [2011J01057]
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One-dimensional (1-D) TiO2 nanorod arrays (NRAs) with large inner surface area are desired in dyesensitized solar cells (DSSCs). So far, good performance of DSSCs based on 1-D rutile TiO2 NRAs remains a challenge mainly owing to their low dye-loading ability resulting from the insufficient specific surface area of 1-D TiO2 nanostructures. In this paper, densely aligned TiO2 NRAs with tunable thickness were grown directly on transparent conductive fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrates by hydrothermal method, followed by a facile chemical etching route to further increase the specific surface area of the TiO2 NRAs. The etching treatment leads to the split of TiO2 nanorods into secondary nanorods with a reduced diameter, which markedly enlarges the inner surface area of the TiO2 NRAs. The formation of 1-D rutile TiO2 nanotube arrays (NTAs) is observed as well in the etched TiO2 films. Finally, a DSSC efficiency of 5.94% was achieved by utilizing an etched TiO2 NRA as the photoanode, which is so far the best DSSC efficiency that has been reported for the 1-D rutile TiO2 NRA films.
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