Preparation of nanoporous MgO-coated TiO2 nanoparticles and their application to the electrode of dye-sensitized solar cells. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Sol-gel-derived Mg(OH)(2) gel was coated onto TiO(2) nanoparticles, and the subsequent thermal topotactic decomposition of the gel formed a highly nanoporous MgO crystalline coating. The specific surface area of the electrode that was prepared from the core-shell-structured TiO(2) nanoparticles significantly increased compared with that of the uncoated TiO(2) electrode. The increase in the specific surface area of the MgO-coated TiO(2) electrode was attributed to the highly nanoporous MgO coating layer that resulted from the topotactic reaction. Dye adsorption behavior and solar cell performance were significantly enhanced by employing the MgO-coated TiO(2) electrode. Optimized coating of a MgO layer on TiO(2) nanoparticles enhanced the energy conversion efficiency as much as 45% compared to that of the uncoated TiO(2) electrode. This indicates that controlling the extrinsic parameters such as the specific surface area is very important to improve the energy conversion efficiency of TiO(2)-based solar cells.

published proceedings

  • Langmuir

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Jung, H. S., Lee, J., Nastasi, M., Lee, S., Kim, J., Park, J., Hong, K. S., & Shin, H.

citation count

  • 182

complete list of authors

  • Jung, Hyun Suk||Lee, Jung-Kun||Nastasi, Michael||Lee, Sang-Wook||Kim, Jin-Young||Park, Jong-Sung||Hong, Kug Sun||Shin, Hyunho

publication date

  • November 2005