title: Carbon nanohorns as integrative materials for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells.
abstract: Different nanocarbons, that is, single-wall carbon nanotubes, graphene, single-wall carbon nanohorns (SWCNHs), and their respective oxidized analogs have been used to fabricate novel doped TiO2 electrodes for DSSCs. Our results indicate that all of the nanocarbons significantly enhance the device characteristics when compared to standard TiO2 electrodes. Overall, our most outstanding finding is that SWCNH derivatives are also a plausible material for developing highly-efficient DSSCs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, 91058, Germany.
authors.forename: Rubén D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Feihl
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kahnt
authors.forename: Sanjeev
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gambhir
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Officer
authors.forename: Gordon G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: María Isabel
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Lucio
authors.forename: María Antonia
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Herrero
authors.forename: Ester
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vázquez
authors.forename: Zois
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Syrgiannis
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Prato
authors.forename: Dirk M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Guldi
mesh_terms: D004396:Coloring Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004566:Electrodes; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D016062:Porosity; D012993:Solar Energy; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; C009495:titanium dioxide; D014025:Titanium
keywords: carbon-materials; dye-sensitized solar cells; nanocarbon/TiO2 composites; single-wall carbon nanohorns