Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 3, Issue 5, Pages 1585-1593Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am200147b
Keywords
sodium fluoride; anodization; well-aligned TiO2 nanotube; photoelectrochemistry; dye-sensitized solar cell
Funding
- Australian Research Council
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This work reports the use of sodium fluoride (in ethylene glycol electrolyte) as the replacement of hydrofluoric acid and ammonium fluoride to fabricate long and perpendicularly well-aligned TiO2 nanotube (TNT) (up to 21 mu m) using anodization. Anodizing duration, applied voltage and electrolyte composition influenced the geometry and surface morphologies of TNT. The growth mechanism of TNT is interpreted by analyzing the current transient profile and the total charge density generated during anodization. The system with low water content (2 wt %) yielded a membrane-like mesoporous TiO2 film, whereas high anodizing voltage (70 V) resulted in the unstable film of TNT arrays. An optimized condition using 5 wt % water content and 60 V of anodizing voltage gave a stable array of nanotube with controllable length and pore diameter. Upon photoexcitation, TNTs synthesized under this condition exhibited a slower charge recombination rate as nanotube length increased. When made into cis-diisothiocyanato-bis(2,2'-bipyridyl-4,4'-dicarboxylato) ruthenium(II) bis (tetrabutyl-anunonium)(N719) dye-sensitized solar cells, good device efficiency at 3.33 % based on the optimized TNT arrays was achieved with longer electron time compared with most mesoporous TiO2 films.
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