TiO2        nanotubes: Structure optimization for solar cells

Junfeng Yan; Feng Zhou

doi:10.1039/C1JM10274E

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TiO₂nanotubes: Structure optimization for solar cells

Junfeng Yan^ab and Feng Zhou*^a

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^a State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
E-mail: zhouf@lzb.ac.cn

^b Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Abstract

This review starts with a brief introduction to TiO₂ nanotubes (NTs), and then discusses in more detail how to optimize the structure of TiO₂ NTs for the fabrication of highly efficient solar cells, including the controllable fabrication of perfectly aligned TiO₂ NTs, optimizing the tube parameters, strategies of sensitization, improvement of the interface adhesion in polymer/TiO₂ solar cells and how to make devices flexible. Some key challenges and perspectives for future research are also tentatively discussed.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C1JM10274E
Article type: Highlight
Submitted: 19 Jan 2011
Accepted: 05 Apr 2011
First published: 10 May 2011

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J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 9406-9418

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