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Title: Electrospinning-derived “Hairy Seaweed” and its photoelectrochemical properties
Authors: Kong, Junhua
Wei, Yuefan
Yang, Liping
Yee, Wu Aik
Dong, Yuliang
Zhou, Rui
Wong, Siew Yee
Ke, Lin
Sun, Xiaowei
Du, Hejun
Li, Xu
Lu, Xuehong
Keywords: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Nanoelectronics
Issue Date: 2013
Source: Kong, J., Wei, Y., Yang, L., Yee, W., Dong, Y., Zhong, R., et al. (2013). Electrospinning-Derived “Hairy Seaweed” and Its Photoelectrochemical Properties. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117(19), 10106–10113.
Series/Report no.: Journal of physical chemistry C
Abstract: Highly porous three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical nanostructures suspended in aqueous media were facilely prepared via electrospinning of polyacrylonitrile (PAN)/indium tin oxide (ITO) nanofibers and collection of the hybrid nanofibers by water, followed by hydrothermally growing ZnO nanorods from the nanofibers. The large inter-fiber distances facilitated the uniform growth of the ZnO nanorods throughout the whole system. The suspended PAN/ITO nanofibers process excellent light trapping capability due to their centimeter-sized dimensions and hence large light penetration path. This significantly increases the probability of multiple-reflections, leading to high absorption with almost zero transmission when the size of the sample reaches 10 mm in the direction parallel to incident light. High photocurrent was generated when the nanorods-on-nanofibers was used as a photoanode. The high photocurrent density generated by the anode can be attributed to its excellent light-trapping capability brought by the large amount of interaction sites between the ZnO nanorods and light, its large contact area with electrolyte, as well as the conduction path constructed by high-content ITO nanoparticles.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96654
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9950
DOI: 10.1021/jp3125395
Schools: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering 
Rights: © 2013 American Chemical Society. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, American Chemical Society. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp3125395]
Fulltext Permission: open
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