title: Solid-state synthesis of ZnO nanostructures for quasi-solid dye-sensitized solar cells with high efficiencies up to 6.46%.
abstract: Solid-state synthesis of ZnO nanostructured building blocks is presented in this work for the fabrication of high efficiency quasi-solid dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The sponge-like photoanode has high optical density and better connections. Baking the photoanode at low temperature, photoconversion efficiencies of up to 6.46% are yielded by the quasi-solid DSSCs. Furthermore, we demonstrate better stability of our ZnO quasi-solid DSSCs.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. shiyantao@dlut.edu.cn
authors.forename: Yantao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Junfu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Anders
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hagfeldt
authors.forename: Ning
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Tingli
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ma
keywords: ZnO nanosheets; high efficiency; quasi-solid; solid-state synthesis; sponge-like