Biomolecule-assisted synthesis of carbon nitride and sulfur-doped carbon nitride heterojunction nanosheets: An efficient heterojunction photocatalyst for photoelectrochemical applications

• Hua Bing Tao,
• Hong Bin Yang,
• Jiazang Chen,
• Jianwei Miao and
• Bin Liu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 770–777, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.89

• purging nitrogen for 30 min. The working electrode was prepared as the following: briefly, 10 mg of as-prepared sample was suspended in 1 mL of isopropyl alcohol (IPA). Then, 50 μL of the colloidal suspension (10 mg/mL) was dropcasted onto precleaned fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate with a fixed

Kelvin probe force microscopy of nanocrystalline TiO₂ photoelectrodes

• Alex Henning,
• Gino Günzburger,
• Res Jöhr,
• Yossi Rosenwaks,
• Biljana Bozic-Weber,
• Catherine E. Housecroft,
• Edwin C. Constable,
• Ernst Meyer and
• Thilo Glatzel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 418–428, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.49

• received substantial attention from both academic and industrial communities focusing on new materials and advanced device concepts [3][4][5][6][7][8]. A typical DSC consists of a dye-coated TiO2 photoelectrode, deposited on a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) conductive-glass substrate, an redox-couple

Reduced electron recombination of dye-sensitized solar cells based on TiO₂ spheres consisting of ultrathin nanosheets with [001] facet exposed

• Hongxia Wang,
• Meinan Liu,
• Cheng Yan and
• John Bell

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 378–387, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.44

• dye-coated TiO2 electrode, which is deposited on a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) conductive-glass substrate, a I−/I3− redox-couple-based electrolyte and a platinum counter electrode. Upon illumination, a photon with high energy (higher than the energy difference between the HOMO and LUMO level of the

• the TiO2 film before reaching the current collector, which is based on the conductive fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate. Meanwhile, a parallel reaction, which involves transfer of the hole from the oxidized state of the dye (dye+) to the surrounding I− ions of the redox couple of the

• size of 20 nm was employed for comparison. Assembly of dye-sensitized solar cells The procedure for the fabrication of the dye-sensitized solar cells was reported in our previous work [11][12]. Briefly, a substrate based on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) conductive glass (TEC15, Pilkington) was

Highly efficient ZnO/Au Schottky barrier dye-sensitized solar cells: Role of gold nanoparticles on the charge-transfer process

• Tanujjal Bora,
• Htet H. Kyaw,
• Soumik Sarkar,
• Samir K. Pal and
• Joydeep Dutta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 681–690, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.73

• sensitizer dye molecules, the photoexcited electrons in the Au nanoparticles are transferred to the conduction band (CB) of ZnO, and then diffuse through the ZnO nanorods towards the conducting fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate resulting in higher photocurrent and photovoltage, as observed. The

Schottky junction/ohmic contact behavior of a nanoporous TiO₂ thin film photoanode in contact with redox electrolyte solutions

• Masao Kaneko,
• Hirohito Ueno and
• Junichi Nemoto

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 127–134, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.15

• are transported first to the fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO, SnO2:F) conductive layer through TiO2 grain boundaries and then to the cathode reducing electron acceptor there (O2 in the present case). In a Schottky junction, under the conditions when the band structure is flat without any bending, the

Low-temperature solution growth of ZnO nanotube arrays

• Ki-Woong Chae,
• Qifeng Zhang,
• Jeong Seog Kim,
• Yoon-Ha Jeong and
• Guozhong Cao

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 128–134, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.15

• of tube-shaped ZnO was due to a selective deposition of colloidal Zn(OH)2 at the edge of the (001) plane of ZnO nanorods that were formed in the beginning stage of the reaction. Results and discussion Figure 1 shows the SEM image of the film of ZnO seeds on an indium doped tin oxide (ITO) substrate

• . Experimental ZnO nanorods were grown on an indium doped tin oxide (ITO) glass substrate, on which ZnO nanocrystallites as seeds were pre-prepared via an electrophoretic deposition. Typically, the ITO substrate was immersed in a 0.5 M zinc nitrate (Fisher Scientific Corp., USA), and an electric potential of 2.5