PMID- 26421504
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160314
LR  - 20151027
IS  - 1520-5827 (Electronic)
IS  - 0743-7463 (Linking)
VI  - 31
IP  - 42
DP  - 2015 Oct 27
TI  - Performance Enhancement of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on TiO(2) Thick 
      Mesoporous Photoanodes by Morphological Manipulation.
PG  - 11659-70
LID - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02718 [doi]
AB  - This study is an attempt to give an account of the preparation of mesoporous TiO2 
      thick templated films of nonsimilar pore architecture and their use in 
      dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Highly crystallized mesoporous titania thick 
      templated films with four different morphologies including hexagonal, wormlike, 
      cubic, and gridlike mesostructure, have been successfully synthesized through an 
      evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) route followed by layer-by-layer 
      deposition. Stabilization, followed by each coating, and calcinations, carried 
      out after every five layers, were used to produce crack-free thick films. These 
      mesoporous templated titanium dioxide samples were characterized by TEM, XRD, 
      SEM, BET, and UV-vis measurements and used as a photoelectrode material in DSSCs. 
      The mesostructured films with a thickness of about 7 mum demonstrated better 
      performance in comparison to nanocrystalline TiO2 films (NC-TiO2) at a film 
      thickness of 13 mum as the most typical films utilized in DSSCs. The findings 
      reveal that a surfactant/Ti ratio change undergone for developing cubic 
      mesostructures can enhance the crystallinity and roughness factor and therefore 
      increase the energy conversion efficiency of DSSC. The cell performances derived 
      from these mesofilms were enhanced compared to the efficiencies reported thus 
      far. The best photovoltaic performance of 8.73% came from DSSC using the cubic 
      mesoporous TiO2 photoelectrode with the following properties: open circuit 
      voltage of 743 mV, short circuit photocurrent density of 16.35 mA/cm(2), and fill 
      factor of 0.72.
FAU - Keshavarzi, Reza
AU  - Keshavarzi R
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Catalysis Division, University of Isfahan , Isfahan 
      81746-73441, Iran.
FAU - Mirkhani, Valiollah
AU  - Mirkhani V
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Catalysis Division, University of Isfahan , Isfahan 
      81746-73441, Iran.
FAU - Moghadam, Majid
AU  - Moghadam M
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Catalysis Division, University of Isfahan , Isfahan 
      81746-73441, Iran.
FAU - Tangestaninejad, Shahram
AU  - Tangestaninejad S
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Catalysis Division, University of Isfahan , Isfahan 
      81746-73441, Iran.
FAU - Mohammadpoor-Baltork, Iraj
AU  - Mohammadpoor-Baltork I
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Catalysis Division, University of Isfahan , Isfahan 
      81746-73441, Iran.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20151016
PL  - United States
TA  - Langmuir
JT  - Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
JID - 9882736
EDAT- 2015/10/01 06:00
MHDA- 2015/10/01 06:01
CRDT- 2015/10/01 06:00
PHST- 2015/10/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/10/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/10/01 06:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02718 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Langmuir. 2015 Oct 27;31(42):11659-70. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02718. Epub 
      2015 Oct 16.