Nanoparticle self-assembled hollow TiO2 spheres with well matching visible light scattering for high performance dye-sensitized solar cells

Hongchang Pang; Hongbin Yang; Chun Xian Guo; Jinlin Lu; Chang Ming Li

doi:10.1039/C2CC34355J

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Nanoparticle self-assembled hollow TiO₂ spheres with well matching visible light scattering for high performance dye-sensitized solar cells†

Hongchang Pang,^a Hongbin Yang,^a Chun Xian Guo,^ab Jinlin Lu^a and Chang Ming Li*^ab

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^a School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore

^b Institute for Clean Energy & Advanced Materials, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Abstract

Submicrometer-sized hollow TiO₂ spheres are directly self-assembled from TiO₂ nanoparticles without using any template or surfactant as a scattering layer for dye-sensitized solar cells, showing good visible light scattering match to significantly improve the photoconversion efficiency.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC34355J
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 18 Jun 2012
Accepted: 17 Jul 2012
First published: 18 Jul 2012

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Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 8832-8834

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Nanoparticle self-assembled hollow TiO₂ spheres with well matching visible light scattering for high performance dye-sensitized solar cells

H. Pang, H. Yang, C. X. Guo, J. Lu and C. M. Li, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 8832 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC34355J

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