Large-scale synthesis of urchin-like mesoporous TiO2 hollow spheres by targeted etching and their photoelectrochemical properties

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 95-104

  Pan, Jia Hong ^a,b   Wang, Xing Zhu ^a   Huang, Qizhao ^a   Shen, Chao ^a   Koh, Zhen Yu ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Engel, Astrid ^b   Bahnemann, Detlef W ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; hollow spheres; hydrothermal processes; photocatalysis; titanium dioxide

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; HOLLOW SPHERE; HYDROTHERMAL PROCESS; PHOTO-CATALYTIC REMOVAL; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL (PEG); SPHERICAL MORPHOLOGIES;

COATINGS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ETCHING; NITRIC OXIDE; PHOTOCATALYSIS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE REACTIONS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84891557333     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201300946     Document Type: Article

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