Facile synthesis of Au@TiO2 core–shell hollow spheres for dye-sensitized solar cells with remarkably improved efficiency

✍ Scribed by Du, Jiang; Qi, Jian; Wang, Dan; Tang, Zhiyong

• Book ID: 121681109
• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 636 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1754-5692
• DOI: 10.1039/c2ee21264a

✦ Synopsis

Au@TiO 2 hollow submicrospheres with controllable sizes and shell thicknesses are easily synthesized by the hydrothermal method. When Au@TiO 2 hollow submicrospheres are used as the photoanodes of DSSCs, a power conversion efficiency of 8.13% is achieved, which exhibits a 30% increase compared with the conventional DSSCs fabricated with P25 TiO 2 photoanodes.