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Title: CdS sensitized 3D hierarchical TiO2/ZnO heterostructure for efficient solar energy conversion
Authors: Zheng, Zhaoke
Xie, Wen
Lim, Zhi Shiuh
You, Lu
Wang, Junling
Keywords: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Microelectronics and semiconductor materials
Issue Date: 2014
Source: Zheng, Z., Xie, W., Lim, Z. S., You, L., & Wang, J. (2014). CdS sensitized 3D hierarchical TiO2/ZnO heterostructure for efficient solar energy conversion. Scientific Reports, 4.
Series/Report no.: Scientific reports
Abstract: For conventional dye or quantum dot sensitized solar cells, which are fabricated using mesoporous films, the inefficient electron transport due to defects such as grain boundaries and surface traps is a major drawback. To simultaneously increase the carrier transport efficiency as well as the surface area, optimal-assembling of hierarchical nanostructures is an attractive approach. Here, a three dimensional (3D) hierarchical heterostructure, consisting of CdS sensitized one dimensional (1D) ZnO nanorods deposited on two dimensional (2D) TiO2 (001) nanosheet, is prepared via a solution-process method. Such heterstructure exhibits significantly enhanced photoelectric and photocatalytic H2 evolution performance compared with CdS sensitized 1D ZnO nanorods/1D TiO2 nanorods photoanode, as a result of the more efficient light harvesting over the entire visible light spectrum and the effective electron transport through a highly connected 3D network.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104657
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20334
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/srep05721
Schools: School of Materials Science & Engineering 
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