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Nanoscale

Diatom frustules as light traps enhance DSSC efficiency†

Jeremiah Toster,a   K. Swaminathan Iyer,a   Wanchun Xiang,c   Federico Rosei,b   Leone Spicciac  and  Colin L. Raston*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Centre for Strategic Nano-fabrication, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University Of Western Australia, Crawley, WA-6009, Australia
E-mail: colin.raston@uwa.edu.au
Fax: +61 8 6488 8683
Tel: +61 8 6488 3045

b Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université du Quebec, 1650 Boul. Lionel Boulet, Varennes, QC, Canada
E-mail: rosei@emt.inrs.ca
Fax: +1 450 929 8102
Tel: +1 514 228 8246

c School of Chemistry and ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Monash University, Victoria-3800, Australia
E-mail: leonespiccia@monash.edu
Fax: +61 3 9905 4597
Tel: +61 3 9905 4526

Abstract

Diatoms are one of the most successful photosynthetic organisms and given the important role that their shells (frustules) play in light trapping we explored their use in multilayered materials for application as photoanodes in dye sensitised solar cells (DSSCs). We find a substantial improvement in energy conversion efficiency of 30%, increasing from 3.5% to 4.6% with diatom incorporation.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2NR32716C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Sep 2012
Accepted
03 Nov 2012
First published
06 Nov 2012

Nanoscale, 2013,5, 873-876

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Diatom frustules as light traps enhance DSSC efficiency

J. Toster, K. S. Iyer, W. Xiang, F. Rosei, L. Spiccia and C. L. Raston, Nanoscale, 2013, 5, 873 DOI: 10.1039/C2NR32716C

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