@article{3647f840643d48bc9a75bcfcc31a8325,
title = "Improved conductivity in dye-sensitised solar cells through block-copolymer confined TiO 2 crystallisation",
abstract = "Anatase TiO2 is typically a central component in high performance dye-sensitised solar cells (DSCs). This study demonstrates the benefits of high temperature synthesised mesoporous titania for the performance of solid-state DSCs. In contrast to earlier methods, the high temperature stability of mesoporous titania is enabled by the self-assembly of the amphiphilic block copolymer polyisoprene-block-polyethylene oxide (PI-b -PEO) which compartmentalises TiO2 crystallisation, preventing the collapse of porosity at temperatures up to 700 °C. The systematic study of the temperature dependence on DSC performance reveals a parameter trade-off: high temperature annealed anatase consisted of larger crystallites and had a higher conductivity, but this came at the expense of a reduced specific surface area. While the reduction in specific surface areas was found to be detrimental for liquid-electrolyte DSC performance, solid-state DSCs benefitted from the increased anatase conductivity and exhibited a performance increase by a factor of three. {\textcopyright} 2011 The Royal Society of Chemistry.",
author = "Stefan Guldin and Sven H{\"u}ttner and Priti Tiwana and Orilall, {M. Christopher} and Burak {\"U}lg{\"u}t and Morgan Stefik and Pablo Docampo and Matthias Kolle and Giorgio Divitini and Caterina Ducati and Redfern, {Simon A. T.} and Snaith, {Henry J.} and Ulrich Wiesner and Dominik Eder and Ullrich Steiner",
note = "KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01 Acknowledgements: This work was funded in part by the EPSRC Nanotechnology Grand Challenges Energy grant (EP/F056702/1), and EP/F065884/1, the Department of Energy (DE-FG02 87ER45298) through the Cornell Fuel Cell Institute (CFCI), the National Science Foundation (DMR-0605856), and the Cornell Universiy KAUST Center for Research and Education. SG acknowledges support by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and CD thanks the Royal Society for funding. We thank T. Abraham for help with the XRD measurements, P. Laity for help with SAXS measurements, and P. Muller-Buschbaum for useful discussions. This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1039/c0ee00362j",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "4",
pages = "225--233",
journal = "Energy Environ. Sci.",
issn = "1754-5692",
publisher = "Royal Society of Chemistry",
number = "1",
}