title: Hydrothermal fabrication of hierarchically anatase TiO2 nanowire arrays on FTO glass for dye-sensitized solar cells.
abstract: Hierarchical anatase TiO(2) nano-architecture arrays consisting of long TiO(2) nanowire trunk and numerous short TiO(2) nanorod branches on transparent conductive fluorine-doped tin oxide glass are successfully synthesized for the first time through a facile one-step hydrothermal route without any surfactant and template. Dye-sensitized solar cells based on the hierarchical anatase TiO(2) nano-architecture array photoelectrode of 18 μm in length shows a power conversion efficiency of 7.34% because of its higher specific surface area for adsorbing more dye molecules and superior light scattering capacity for boosting the light-harvesting efficiency. The present photovoltaic performance is the highest value for the reported TiO(2) nanowires array photoelectrode.
authors: MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic and Synthetic Chemistry, KLGHEI of Environment and Energy Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, P R China.
authors: Wu-Qiang
authors: WQ
authors: Wu
authors: Bing-Xin
authors: BX
authors: Lei
authors: Hua-Shang
authors: HS
authors: Rao
authors: Yang-Fan
authors: YF
authors: Xu
authors: Yu-Fen
authors: YF
authors: Wang
authors: Cheng-Yong
authors: CY
authors: Su
authors: Dai-Bin
authors: DB
authors: Kuang