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Constructing 3D Branched Nanowire Coated Macroporous Metal Oxide Electrodes with Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Compositions for Efficient Solar Cells^†

Wu-Qiang Wu

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Lehn Institute of Functional Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275 (P.R. China)

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Yang-Fan Xu,

Yang-Fan Xu

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Hua-Shang Rao,

Hua-Shang Rao

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Hao-Lin Feng,

Hao-Lin Feng

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Prof. Dr. Cheng-Yong Su,

Prof. Dr. Cheng-Yong Su

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Prof. Dr. Dai-Bin Kuang,

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Prof. Dr. Dai-Bin Kuang

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Wu-Qiang Wu,

Wu-Qiang Wu

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Yang-Fan Xu,

Yang-Fan Xu

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Hua-Shang Rao,

Hua-Shang Rao

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Hao-Lin Feng,

Hao-Lin Feng

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Prof. Dr. Cheng-Yong Su,

Prof. Dr. Cheng-Yong Su

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Prof. Dr. Dai-Bin Kuang,

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Prof. Dr. Dai-Bin Kuang

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First published: 26 March 2014

https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201402371

Citations: 89

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We acknowledge financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U0934003, J1103305), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-11-0533), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the NSF of Guangdong Province (S2013030013474).

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Wired for light: A versatile method allows the preparation of nanowire-coated macroporous material based homo- or heterogeneous metal oxide composite electrodes (TiO₂–TiO₂, SnO₂–TiO₂, and Zn₂SnO₄–TiO₂). Dye-sensitized solar cells based on macroporous TiO₂/TiO₂ nanowire homogeneous electrode show an impressive conversion efficiency as high as 9.51 %, which is much higher than those of pure macroporous material based photoelectrodes used up to date.

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Light-harvesting and charge collection have attracted increasing attention in the domain of photovoltaic cells, and can be facilitated dramatically by appropriate design of a photonic nanostructure. However, the applicability of current light-harvesting photoanode materials with single component and/or morphology (such as, particles, spheres, wires, sheets) is still limited by drawbacks such as insufficient electron–hole separation and/or light-trapping. Herein, we introduce a universal method to prepare hierarchical assembly of macroporous material–nanowire coated homogenous or heterogeneous metal oxide composite electrodes (TiO₂–TiO₂, SnO₂–TiO₂, and Zn₂SnO₄–TiO₂; homogenous refers to a material in which the nanowire and the macroporous material have the same composition, i.e. both are TiO₂. Heterogeneous refers to a material in which the nanowires and the macroporous material have different compositions). The dye-sensitized solar cell based on a TiO₂-macroporous material–TiO₂-nanowire homogenous composition electrode shows an impressive conversion efficiency of 9.51 %, which is much higher than that of pure macroporous material-based photoelectrodes to date.

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