Improved Photoelectrochemical Cell Performance of Tin Oxide with Functionalized Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes-Cadmium Selenide Sensitizer
- Title
- Improved Photoelectrochemical Cell Performance of Tin Oxide with Functionalized Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes-Cadmium Selenide Sensitizer
- Author
- 한성환
- Keywords
- SnO2-CdSe; SnO2-CdSe-MWCNTs; dye-sensitized solar cell; functionalized MWCNTs; photoanodes
- Issue Date
- 2015-09
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Citation
- ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, v. 7, NO 45, Page. 25094-25104
- Abstract
- Here we report functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (f-MWCNTs)-CdSe nanocrystals (NCs) as photosensitizer in photoelectrochemical cells, where f-MWCNTs were uniformly coated with CdSe NCs onto SnO2 upright standing nanosheets by using a simple electrodeposition method. The resultant blended photoanodes demonstrate extraordinary electrochemical properties including higher Stern-Volmer constant, higher absorbance, and positive quenching, etc., caused by more accessibility of CdSe NCs compared with pristine SnO2-CdSe photoanode. Atomic and weight percent changes of carbon with f-MWCNTs blending concentrations were confirmed from the energy dispersive X-ray analysis. The morphology images show a uniform coverage of CdSe NCs over f-MWCNTs forming a core-shell type structure as a blend. Compared to pristine CdSe, photoanode with f-MWCNTs demonstrated a 257% increase in overall power conversion efficiency. Obtained results were corroborated by the electrochemical impedance analysis. Higher scattering, more accessibility, and hierarchical structure of SnO2-f-MWCNTs-blend-CdSe NCs photoanode is responsible for higher (a) electron mobility (6.89 x 10(-4) to 10.89 x 10(-4) cm(2) V-1 S1-), (b) diffusion length (27 x 10(-6)), (c) average electron lifetime (32.2 ms), and transit time (1.15 ms).
- URI
- http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.5b05385http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/27482
- ISSN
- 1944-8244
- DOI
- 10.1021/acsami.5b05385
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