Issue 79, 2012
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Chemical Communications

Sensitization of nickel oxide: improved carrier lifetime and charge collection by tuning nanoscale crystallinity†

Xiao Li Zhang,*a   Zhipan Zhang,*b   Dehong Chen,c   Peter Bäuerle,d   Udo Bache  and  Yi-Bing Chenge  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemical Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
E-mail: xiaolizhang.z@gmail.com

b Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, School of Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
E-mail: deanzhang1980@gmail.com

c Department of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3001, Australia

d Institute for Organic Chemistry II and Advanced Materials, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany

e Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia

Abstract

A new record conversion efficiency of 0.61% that stands for a 50% increase in current dye-sensitized NiO photocathode in iodide–triiodide electrolyte was achieved by simply tuning the nanoscale crystallinity of NiO.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC35018A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Jul 2012
Accepted
15 Aug 2012
First published
15 Aug 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 9885-9887

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X. L. Zhang, Z. Zhang, D. Chen, P. Bäuerle, U. Bach and Y. Cheng, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 9885 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35018A

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