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Electrochemical Assessment of the Band-Edge Positioning in Shape-Tailored TiO2-Nanorod-Based Photoelectrodes for Dye Solar Cells (Articolo in rivista)

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Electrochemical Assessment of the Band-Edge Positioning in Shape-Tailored TiO2-Nanorod-Based Photoelectrodes for Dye Solar Cells (Articolo in rivista) (literal)

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Agosta R. [ 1 ] ; Giannuzzi R. [ 1 ] ; De Marco L. [ 1 ] ; Manca M. [ 1 ] ; Belviso M. R. [ 2 ] ; Cozzoli P. D. [ 2,3 ] ; Gigli G. [ 1,2,3 ] (2013)
Electrochemical Assessment of the Band-Edge Positioning in Shape-Tailored TiO2-Nanorod-Based Photoelectrodes for Dye Solar Cells
in Journal of physical chemistry. C; AMER CHEMICAL SOC, WASHINGTON (Stati Uniti d'America)
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Agosta R. [ 1 ] ; Giannuzzi R. [ 1 ] ; De Marco L. [ 1 ] ; Manca M. [ 1 ] ; Belviso M. R. [ 2 ] ; Cozzoli P. D. [ 2,3 ] ; Gigli G. [ 1,2,3 ] (literal)

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[ 1 ] IIT Fdn Ist Italiano Tecnol, Ctr Biomol Nanotechnol, I-73010 Lecce, Italy [ 2 ] CNR Ist Nanosci, NNL, I-73100 Lecce, Italy [ 3 ] Univ Salento, Dipartimento Matemat & Fis E De Giorgi, I-73100 Lecce, Italy (literal)

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Electrochemical Assessment of the Band-Edge Positioning in Shape-Tailored TiO2-Nanorod-Based Photoelectrodes for Dye Solar Cells (literal)

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Three families of linear shaped TiO2 anatase nanocrystals with variable aspect ratio (4, 8, 16) and two sets of branched TiO2 anatase nanocrystals (in the form of open-framework sheaf-like nanorods and compact braid-like nanorod bundles, respectively) were employed to fabricate high-quality mesoporous photoelectrodes and then implemented into dye-sensitized solar cells to elucidate the intrinsic correlation holding between the photovoltaic performances and the structure of the nanocrystal building blocks. To this aim, the chemical capacitance and the charge-transfer resistance of the photoelectrodes were extrapolated from electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements and used to draw a quantitative energy diagram of the dye-sensitized solar cells realized, on the basis of which their photovoltaic performances have been discussed. It has thus been revealed that photoanodes made from braid-like branched-nanorod bundles exhibited the most favorable conditions to minimize recombination at the interface with the electrolyte due to their deep distribution of trap states, whereas linear-shaped nanorods with higher aspect-ratios result in more remarkable downshift of the conduction band edge. (literal)

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