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卷 8, 期 44, 页码 18771-18781出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6nr07185f
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [21573166, 21271146, 20973128, 20871096]
- Funds for Creative Research Groups of Hubei Province [2014CFA007]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [SBK2015020824]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [2042014kf0228]
Brookite TiO2 nanoparticles with small sizes (hereafter denoted as BTP particles) were synthesized through the hydrothermal treatment of TiCl4 solution with Pb(NO3)(2) as an additive. The obtained BTP particles have a large specific surface area (similar to 122.2 m(2) g(-1)) and relatively uniform particle sizes (similar to 10 nm) with the coexistence of a small quantity of nanorods with a length of similar to 100 nm. When used as a photoanode material for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), the BTP particles show a much higher dye-loading content than the brookite TiO2 quasi nanocubes (denoted as BTN particles) with a mean size of similar to 50 nm and a specific surface area of similar to 34.2 m(2) g(-1) that were prepared through a similar hydrothermal process but without the addition of Pb(NO3)(2). The fabricated BTP film-based solar cell with an optimized film thickness gives a conversion efficiency up to 6.36% with a 74% improvement when compared to the BTN film-based one (3.65%) under AM 1.5G one sun irradiation, while the corresponding bilayer brookite-based solar cell by using brookite TiO2 submicrometer particles as an overlayer of the BTP film displays a significantly enhanced efficiency of 7.64%. Both of them exceed the current record (5.97%) for the conversion efficiency of pure brookite-based DSSCs reported in the literature. The present results not only demonstrate a really simple synthesis of brookite TiO2 nanoparticles with both high phase purity and a large surface area, but also offer an efficient approach to improve the photovoltaic performance of brookite-based solar cells by offsetting brookite's inherent shortages such as lower dye-loading and poor conductivity as compared to anatase.
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