期刊
JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY A-CHEMISTRY
卷 231, 期 1, 页码 9-18出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2012.01.002
关键词
Titanium dioxide; Carbon nanotubes; Composite materials; Hybrid materials; Photovoltaic devices
资金
- National University of Singapore
- National Research Foundation
- M3TC (Economic Development Board), Singapore [NRF 2007 EWT-CERP 01-0531, NRF-CRP4-2008-03, R-261-501-018-414]
Titanium dioxide-multiwalled carbon nanotube (denoted as TiO2-CNT) nanocomposites with a novel rice-grains nanostructure are synthesized by electrospinning and subsequent high temperature sintering. The rice grain-shaped TiO2 is single crystalline with a large surface area and the single crystallinity is retained in the TiO2-CNT composite as well. At very low CNT loadings (0.1-0.3 wt% of TiO2), the rice grain shape remains unchanged while at high CNT concentrations (8 wt%), the morphology distorts with CNTs sticking out of the rice-grain shape. The optimum concentration of CNTs in the TiO2 matrix for best performance in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) is found to be 0.2 wt%, which shows a 32% enhancement in the energy conversion efficiency. The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and the incident photon-to-electron conversion efficiency (IPCE) measurements show that the charge transfer and collection are improved by the incorporation of CNTs into the rice grain-shaped TiO2 network. We believe that this facile one-pot method for the synthesis of the rice-grain shaped TiO2-CNT composites with high surface area and single crystallinity offers an attractive means for the mass-scale fabrication of the nanostructures for DSCs since electrospinning is a simple, cost-effective and scalable means for the commercial scale fabrication of one-dimensional nanostructures. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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