A novel tri-layered photoanode of hierarchical ZnO microspheres on 1D ZnO nanowire arrays for dye-sensitized solar cells-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A novel tri-layered photoanode of hierarchical ZnO microspheres on 1D ZnO nanowire arrays for dye-sensitized solar cells

Published:2015 Issue:22 Volume:5 Page:16678-16683
ISSN:2046-2069
Container-title:RSC Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:RSC Adv.

Author:

Kang Xiaohui¹²³⁴⁵,Jia Chunyang⁵⁶⁷⁸⁴,Wan Zhongquan⁵⁶⁷⁸⁴,Zhuang Jia¹²³⁴,Feng Juan⁹⁷⁸⁴

Affiliation:

1. School of Materials Science and Engineering

2. Southwest Petroleum University

3. Chengdu 610500

4. P. R. China

5. State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices

6. School of Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics

7. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

8. Chengdu 610054

9. School of Life Science and Technology

Abstract

A novel tri-layered ZnO nanostructure, consisting of ZnO nanowires as the underlayer, small ZnO hierarchical microspheres as the interlayer and large ZnO hierarchical microspheres as the overlayer, was designed and studied as a photoanode for dye-sensitized solar cells.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2015/RA/C4RA17063F

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