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Preparation of porous nanocrystalline TiO2 electrode by screen-printing technique

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Different paste has been used for preparing porous TiO2 thin film by screen-printing technique, the main component of it comes from commercial TiO2 P25 power. The dye-sensitized solar cell based on this TiO2 thin film without further chemical treatments exhibits high overall conversion efficiency of 5.81%–6.70%, even with low TiO2 content and thin film thickness. The experimental repeatability is nice and the properties of the films are uniform.

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  1. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China

    Xie DongMei, Feng ShuJing, Lin Yuan, Xiao XuRui, Li XuePing & Zhou XiaoWen

  2. College of Material Science and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China

    Xie DongMei & Dong GuoJun

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 20373075 and 50221201)

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Xie, D., Feng, S., Lin, Y. et al. Preparation of porous nanocrystalline TiO2 electrode by screen-printing technique. CHINESE SCI BULL 52, 2481–2485 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-007-0372-0

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