Journal
ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS
Volume 4, Issue 8, Pages 8251-8261Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.1c01447
Keywords
titanium nitride nanoflower buds; counter electrode; catalytic activity; dye-sensitized solar cells; efficiency
Funding
- DST-SERB, Government of India [CRG/2020/005273]
- Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
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The nanostructure of titanium nitride was studied and synthesized as a counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells, showing electrocatalytic activity comparable to platinum CE. The TiN NFB CE demonstrated high power conversion efficiency and stability, indicating potential application in replacing costly platinum CEs in large area DSSCs.
The nanostructure of titanium nitride was synthesized and investigated as a counter electrode (CE) to replace the conventional platinum CE for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Titanium nitride nanoflower buds (TiN NFBs) were successfully prepared by a simple and efficient method of ammonialization of hydrothermally prepared titanium dioxide nanobuds with mixed anatase and rutile phase. Titanium nitride, with its unique nanostructure, exhibits good surface property with a wide range of porosity distribution, which is attributed to the possible electrocatalytic active sites. The electrochemical studies performed show that TiN NFBs demonstrate high electrocatalytic activity toward the iodide/triiodide electrolyte and exhibit good charge transfer kinetics with low charge transfer resistance comparable to the performance of the platinum electrode. The photocurrent voltage characteristics of the TiN NFB CE assembled DSSC shows that it achieves a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.0%, which is very close to the PCE reached for the Pt CE based DSSC (7.4%). The 30 day stability study reveals the highly stable performance of the TiN NFB CE based DSSC and good corrosion resistance toward the iodide/triiodide redox electrolyte. Thus, the overall performance of the TiN NFB encourages further research to prepare different TiN nanostructures to replace the conventional costly Pt CE for large area DSSCs to reach the consumer market.
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