Issue 33, 2011
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Which is a superior material for scattering layer in dye-sensitized solar cells—electrospun rice grain- or nanofiber-shaped TiO2?

Peining Zhu,a   A. Sreekumaran Nair,*b   Shengyuan Yang,c   Shengjie Pengb  and  Seeram Ramakrishna*bde  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

b Healthcare and Energy Materials Laboratory, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
E-mail: nniansn@nus.edu.sg, seeram@nus.edu.sg

c NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Singapore, Singapore

d Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore, Singapore

e King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

A thin film of rice grain- and nanofiber-shaped titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanostructures was fabricated as an effective scattering layer on the nanoparticle electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells by electrospinning. The rice grain-like nanostructures are found to be superior to the nanofibers in scattering light with a 15.7% enhancement in efficiency compared to 9.63% for nanofibers.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1JM11939G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
03 May 2011
Accepted
27 Jun 2011
First published
12 Jul 2011

J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 12210-12212

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Which is a superior material for scattering layer in dye-sensitized solar cells—electrospun rice grain- or nanofiber-shaped TiO2?

P. Zhu, A. S. Nair, S. Yang, S. Peng and S. Ramakrishna, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 12210 DOI: 10.1039/C1JM11939G

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