Photonic crystals for sensitized solar cells: fabrication, properties, and applications

Xie, Keyu; Guo, Min; Huang, Haitao

doi:10.1039/c5tc02121a

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“…With low-cost, abundant and environmentally friendly nature, metal oxides, specially MnO 2 [61], Fe 3 O 4 [6], and TiO 2 [62,63], are widely investigated for supercapacitor, battery, and solar cell applications. However, the hard and brittle characteristics of these metal oxides have greatly limited their applications in stretchable ESCDs.…”

Section: Metal Oxidesmentioning

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Nanomaterials for Stretchable Energy Storage and Conversion Devices

Xie

Wei

2016

NanoScience and Technology

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With the continuous progress of the energy use and demand, functionalized energy storage and conversion devices (ESCDs) are urgently needed. In the meantime, stretchable ESCDs are attracting intensive attention due to their great potential for specific applications, such as wearable electronics, an electronic skin, implant electronics, and other collapsible gadgets. Design and synthesis of nanomaterials are at the core in the development of highly stretchable supercapacitors, batteries, and solar cells for such applications. This chapter first provides a brief summary of research development on the stretchable ESCDs in the past decade through various strategies of device design and manufacturing approach. After that, the focuses are on the advanced engineering of nanomaterials as active materials to achieve the stretchability of these ESCDs while maintaining a stable and functional performance. Finally, some of the challenges and the important directions in the areas of design and synthesis of nanomaterial facing the stretchable ESCDs are discussed concisely. IntroductionWith the rapidly increasing population and economic development, the world's energy consumption is escalating dramatically, resulting in one of the most serious global challenges of our time-energy scarcity. Hence, a crowd of research in the areas of advanced technologies for energy storage (e.g., batteries and supercapacitors) and conversion (e.g., solar cells) during the past decade has been driven by the

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Section: Metal Oxidesmentioning

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Nanomaterials for Stretchable Energy Storage and Conversion Devices

Xie

Wei

2016

NanoScience and Technology

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“…Photonic crystals can be used to manipulate and localize light of wavelengths corresponding to the length scale of the periodicity analogously to that in which semiconducting crystals are used to manipulate the flow of electrons and hence electricity . Presently, inverse opal photonic crystals with three dimensionally ordered macroporous morphology are being investigated for use in photonic devices, solar cells, batteries, fuel cells, sensors, sorption, and catalysis applications …”

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Plasmonic and Photonic Effects on Hydrogen Evolution over Chemically Modified Titania Inverse Opals

Rahul

Sandhyarani

2018

ChemNanoMat

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The photonic effects of chemically modified titania inverse opals can be exploited for improving photocatalytic hydrogen production. This work reports the in situ preparation of gold-platinum nanoparticle (NP)-loaded and nitrogenfluorine co-doped titania inverse opal photocatalysts with different photonic band gaps (PBGs). In situ loading of gold and platinum NPs was carried out during the preparation of titania inverse opals by treating the titania precursor with gold chloride and platinum chloride. AuÀPt/NÀF TiO 2 IO-460 samples with the photonic effects matching the surface plasmon resonance region of Au NPs displayed a maximum activity with a hydrogen production rate of 134 mmol h À1 g À1 . The hydrogen yield (97 mmol h À1 g À1 ) obtained for AuÀPt/NÀF TiO 2 IO-215, with the photonic effects close to the electronic bandgap of titania was also high when compared to that of the nanocrystalline counterpart, AuÀPt/NÀF nc-TiO 2 (49 mmol h À1 g À1 ). Excellent solar hydrogen evolution profile was observed for in situ gold-platinum NP-loaded and nitrogen-fluorine co-doped titania inverse opal photocatalysts when compared to recent reports.[a] Dr.

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“…Inverse opals (IOs), featuring a 3D ordered interconnected pore system with extremely uniform pore size, have received great attention owing to their wide applications in photonic crystals, sensors, dye‐sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), catalysis, etc. Normally, a colloidal crystal obtained by self‐assembly of microspheres is employed as template for the infiltration of metal oxides, carbon, polymer, conducting polymers, etc., and after the removal of the microspheres IOs of corresponding materials could be obtained.…”

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Synthesis of Polypyrrole Inverse Opals through an Air–Water Interface Polymerization Method and Their Application in Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

Deng

Wang

et al. 2018

Macro Chemistry & Physics

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An air–water interface polymerization method is developed to fabricate polypyrrole inverse opals without overlayers. Colloidal crystals are transferred to the surface of a pyrrole solution, and addition of oxidizer leads to the polymerization of pyrrole on the surface of the colloidal crystals. Since the part of the colloidal crystal protruding from the solution surface are not coated during the polymerization, inverse opals with microbowl arrays at the top could be obtained after removal of the template. The synthesis of an inverse opal multilayer with this approach is also demonstrated. Additionally, polypyrrole inverse opals doped with various acids are used as counter electrodes for dye‐sensitized solar cells, the photoelectric conversion efficiencies of which could approach those achieved with a Pt electrode.

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Photonic crystals for sensitized solar cells: fabrication, properties, and applications

Abstract: The fabrication strategies and optical properties of photonic crystals are reviewed with a focus on their application in sensitized solar cells.

Cited by 43 publications

References 128 publications

Nanomaterials for Stretchable Energy Storage and Conversion Devices

Nanomaterials for Stretchable Energy Storage and Conversion Devices

Plasmonic and Photonic Effects on Hydrogen Evolution over Chemically Modified Titania Inverse Opals

Synthesis of Polypyrrole Inverse Opals through an Air–Water Interface Polymerization Method and Their Application in Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

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