Facile non-hydrolytic solvothermal synthesis of one dimensional TiO 2 nanorods for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Sasipriya Kathirvel; Chaochin Su; Hsuan Ching Lin; Bo Ren Chen; Wen Ren Li

doi:10.1016/j.matlet.2014.04.193

Facile non-hydrolytic solvothermal synthesis of one dimensional TiO ₂ nanorods for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Sasipriya Kathirvel, Chaochin Su^*, Hsuan Ching Lin, Bo Ren Chen, Wen Ren Li

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Abstract

One dimensional rod shaped TiO₂ nanostructures were successfully synthesized by a simple non-aqueous, alcoholysis based solvothermal process. Anatase TiO₂ nanorods (TiO₂ NRs) exhibited a surface area of 109.79 m²/g with particle length and diameter of ∼30-50 nm and ∼10-15 nm (from SEM data), respectively. The photovoltaic performance of TiO₂ nanorods based electrode was investigated in the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). The device based on TiO₂ NRs electrode exhibited an excellent short-circuit current density (J_sc) of 17.75 mA cm ^-2 and an open-circuit voltage (V_oc) of 0.75 V under 1 Sun AM 1.5 G solar light. Due to high dye loading, good light harvesting and fast electron transport, the optimal conversion efficiency (9.21%) of the DSSC fabricated from TiO₂ NRs was significantly higher than that of the commercial DP-25 TiO₂ nanoparticles based cell (6.43%).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	149-152
Number of pages	4
Journal	Materials Letters
Volume	129
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2014.04.193
State	Published - 15 08 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Nanoparticles
Photoanode
Solar energy materials
Solvothermal

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