A High-Field Anodic NiO Nanosponge with Tunable Thickness for Application in p-Type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Umair Sultan; Farzaneh Ahmadloo; Gihoon Cha; Baris Gökcan; Seyedsina Hejazi; Jeong Eun Yoo; Nhat Truong Nguyen; Marco Altomare; Patrik Schmuki; Manuela S. Killian

doi:10.1021/acsaem.0c01249

A High-Field Anodic NiO Nanosponge with Tunable Thickness for Application in p-Type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Umair Sultan
, Farzaneh Ahmadloo
, Gihoon Cha
, Baris Gökcan
, Seyedsina Hejazi
, Jeong Eun Yoo
, Nhat Truong Nguyen
, Marco Altomare
, Patrik Schmuki
, Manuela S. Killian^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Dye-sensitized photocathodes have the potential to significantly contribute to the efficiency of the solar light-To-current conversion in tandem dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). A novel, highly porous nanoarchitecture of NiO is developed in this project. The spongelike material is grown by anodization, shows a virtually crack-free morphology, strongly adheres to the substrate, and can be grown with a controllable thickness of at least up to 6.5 μm. The oxide composition is NiO and the nanosponge exhibits p-Type semiconductive behavior. A doubling of the maximum reported p-Type DSSC efficiency compared to coumarin C343-sensitized NiO nanoparticle photocathodes can be achieved with the NiO nanosponge. The developed dye-sensitized p-Type NiO-based cathodes are promising for application as photocathodes in tandem DSSC devices.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7865-7872
Number of pages	8
Journal	ACS Applied Energy Materials
Volume	3
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.0c01249
Publication status	Published - 24 Aug 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

anodization
dye-sensitized solar cells
nanostructure
nickel oxide
p-Type
photocathode
n/a OA procedure

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