Electrophoretic deposition of mesoporous TiO2 nanoparticles consisting of primary anatase nanocrystallites on a plastic substrate for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells

Hsin-Wei Chen; Chih-Peng Liang; Hou-Sheng Huang; Jian-Ging Chen; R Vittal; Chia-Yu Lin; Kevin C-W Wu; Kuo-Chuan Ho

doi:10.1039/c1cc12514a

Electrophoretic deposition of mesoporous TiO2 nanoparticles consisting of primary anatase nanocrystallites on a plastic substrate for flexible dye-sensitized solar cells

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Aug 7;47(29):8346-8. doi: 10.1039/c1cc12514a. Epub 2011 Jun 20.

Authors

Hsin-Wei Chen¹, Chih-Peng Liang, Hou-Sheng Huang, Jian-Ging Chen, R Vittal, Chia-Yu Lin, Kevin C-W Wu, Kuo-Chuan Ho

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.

PMID: 21691640
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc12514a

Abstract

A film of mesoporous TiO(2) nanoparticles (MTNs) consisting of anatase nanocrystallites was electrophoretically deposited and compressed on a plastic substrate for the corresponding DSSC that gave an excellent conversion efficiency (η) of 5.25% under illumination of 100 mW cm(-2).