Issue 3, 2011
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Energy & Environmental Science

Solution-derived ZnOnanostructures for photoanodes of dye-sensitized solar cells

Feng Xua  and  Litao Sun*a  

* Corresponding authors

a SEU-FEI Nano-Pico Center, Key Laboratory of MEMS of Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
E-mail: slt@seu.edu.cn
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Abstract

Solution-phase derived ZnO nanostructures have triggered considerable interest and become the mainstream route to obtain low-cost and large-scale electrode materials for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The article reviews recent progress in liquid-phase synthesis methods for preparing ZnO nanostructures as the photoanodes of the DSSCs. A few classic paradigms and new advancements in the ZnO nanostructures made by our group are demonstrated. The effects of ZnO nanostructured films with different morphologies, prepared by solution-phase approaches, on the performance of DSSCs are discussed. Finally, various liquid-phase methods of ZnO nanostructure synthesis are summarized and compared to allow further exploration of the ways to improve the photoelectric conversion efficiency of DSSCs.

Graphical abstract: Solution-derived ZnO nanostructures for photoanodes of dye-sensitized solar cells

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0EE00448K
Article type
Review Article
Submitted
17 Sep 2010
Accepted
09 Nov 2010
First published
23 Dec 2010

Energy Environ. Sci., 2011,4, 818-841

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Solution-derived ZnO nanostructures for photoanodes of dye-sensitized solar cells

F. Xu and L. Sun, Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, 4, 818 DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00448K

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