Facile hydrothermal preparation of hierarchically assembled, porous single-crystalline ZnO nanoplates and their application in dye-sensitized solar cells

Yongcai Qiu; Wei Chen; Shihe Yang

doi:10.1039/B917305F

Facile hydrothermal preparation of hierarchically assembled, porous single-crystalline ZnO nanoplates and their application in dye-sensitized solar cells

Yongcai Qiu,^a Wei Chen^a and Shihe Yang*^a

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^a Nano Science and Technology Program, Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, P. R. China
E-mail: chsyang@ust.hk

Abstract

Bottom-up engineering of semiconductor nanostructures holds high potential for designing the next generation of solar cells. A superstructure of meso/micro-porous single-crystalline ZnO nanoplates is created by controlled thermal decomposition of a nanoplate precursor prepared from a hydrothermal process. This unique porous nanoplate structure has proved to be an excellent candidate for constructing photoanodes of low-cost and high-performance dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC).

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The article was received on 21 Aug 2009, accepted on 05 Nov 2009 and first published on 11 Dec 2009

Article type: Paper

DOI: 10.1039/B917305F

Citation: J. Mater. Chem., 2010,20, 1001-1006

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Facile hydrothermal preparation of hierarchically assembled, porous single-crystalline ZnO nanoplates and their application in dye-sensitized solar cells

Y. Qiu, W. Chen and S. Yang, J. Mater. Chem., 2010, 20, 1001
DOI: 10.1039/B917305F
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