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  • A highly crystalline Nb3O7F nanostructured photoelectrode: fabrication and photosensitisation

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    Zhang, Haimin
    Li, Yibing
    Wang, Yun
    Liu, Porun
    Yang, Huagui
    Yao, Xiangdong
    An, Taicheng
    Wood, Barry J
    Zhao, Huijun
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Zhao, Huijun
    Liu, Porun
    Wang, Yun
    Year published
    2013
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    Abstract
    A highly crystalline Nb3O7F nanostructured film composed of a bottom single crystal nanosheet layer with ca. 1.5 mmthickness and a top microsphere layer with ca. 18.5 mmthickness has been successfully fabricated on a FTO conducting substrate through a facile and one-pot hydrothermal method. The top Nb3O7F microspheres with 2-5 mm diameter consist of transparent single crystal nanosheets with 10-40 nm thickness. Without the need for further calcination, the as-synthesised Nb3O7F nanostructured films possess excellent crystallinity and high mechanical stability, which can be directly used as photoanodes for CdS quantum ...
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    A highly crystalline Nb3O7F nanostructured film composed of a bottom single crystal nanosheet layer with ca. 1.5 mmthickness and a top microsphere layer with ca. 18.5 mmthickness has been successfully fabricated on a FTO conducting substrate through a facile and one-pot hydrothermal method. The top Nb3O7F microspheres with 2-5 mm diameter consist of transparent single crystal nanosheets with 10-40 nm thickness. Without the need for further calcination, the as-synthesised Nb3O7F nanostructured films possess excellent crystallinity and high mechanical stability, which can be directly used as photoanodes for CdS quantum dot-sensitised solar cells (QDSSCs) and dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs). The transparent single crystal nanosheets constituting top Nb3O7F microspheres possess exposed (100) and (010) surfaces, which can play an important role in sensitiser loading. The photoelectrochemical measurements indicate that the CdS quantum dot-sensitised Nb3O7F nanostructured photoanode with seven chemical bath deposition (CBD) cycles (NbCdS-7) shows the best performance under visible light irradiation (l > 400 nm) due to higher carrier concentration and longer electron lifetime in NbCdS-7. QDSSCs made of NbCdS-7 photoanodes show an overall light conversion efficiency of 1.68%, which is almost 1.4 and 1.9 times of the NbCdS-5 and NbCdS-10 photoanodes, respectively. DSSC measurement indicates that an overall light conversion efficiency of 2.78% can be achieved for the Nb3O7F nanostructured photoanode. This work demonstrates the possibility of direct growth of a highly crystalline metal oxide-based nanostructured film on a FTO conducting substrate as a photoanode material without the need for further calcination for solar energy conversion applications.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Materials Chemistry A
    Volume
    1
    Issue
    22
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ta11042g
    Copyright Statement
    © 2013 Royal Society of Chemistry. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Inorganic green chemistry
    Macromolecular and materials chemistry
    Materials engineering
    Nanofabrication, growth and self assembly
    Nanomaterials
    Chemical engineering
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/55389
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