Dye-Sensitized Nanostructured Crystalline Mesoporous Tin-doped Indium Oxide Films with Tunable Thickness for Photoelectrochemical Applications.

ABSTRACT: A simple route towards nanostructured mesoporous Indium-Tin Oxide (templated nano-ITO) electrodes exhibiting both high conductivities and optimized bicontinuous pore-solid network is reported. The ITO films are first produced as an X-ray-amorphous, high surface area material, by adapting recently established template-directed sol-gel methods using Sn(IV) and In(III) salts. Carefully controlled temperature/atmosphere treatments convert the as-synthesized ITO films into nano-crystalline coatings with the cubic bixbyite structure. Specially, a multi-layered synthesis was successfully undertaken for tuning the film thickness. In order to evaluate the performances of templated nano-ITO as an electrode substrate for photoelectrochemical applications, photoelectrodes were prepared by covalent gra

SUBMITTER: Hamd W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3880857 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature