JOURNAL OF TEXTILE RESEARCH ›› 2014, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (10): 1-0.

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Effect of ZnO/TiO2 core-sheath thickness ratios on the performance of dye sensitized solar cells

  

  • Received:2013-09-13 Revised:2014-06-26 Online:2014-10-15 Published:2014-09-17
  • Contact: Jie XIONG E-mail:jxiong@zstu.edu.cn

Abstract: To investigate the effect of different core-sheath thickness ratios of core-sheath TiO2/ZnO nanofibers on the photoelectric performance of dye sensitized solar cell, core-sheath TiO2/ZnO nanofibers with different thickness ratios was fabricated by coaxial electrospinning via controlling spinning core-sheath solution flow rate ratios. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to characterize the core-sheath nanofibers. The results revealed that the nanofiber is composed of wurtzite ZnO as sheath and anatase TiO2 as core. Then, the TiO2/ZnO core-sheath nanofibrous membranes acted as photo-anode material to assemble dye sensitized solar cells. At last, we found that when the skin core spinning flow rate ratio is 1:1, the diameter of core-sheath nanofibers is about 154 nm and core layer is about 90 nm in diameter,the dye adsorption amount is the largest and the DSSC based on the core-sheath nanofibers has the highest efficiency of 5.47%, it is 22% higher comparing with DSSC based on the TiO2 nanofibers.

CLC Number: 

  • TB 34
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