A shape- and morphology-controlled metal organic framework template for high-efficiency solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

作者：Chi Won Seok; Roh Dong Kyu; Lee Chang Soo; Kim Jong Hak

来源：Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2015, 3(43): 21599-21608.

DOI：10.1039/c5ta06731f

This report provides a facile process to produce shape- and morphology-controlled MIL-125(Ti), a subclass of metal organic frameworks (MOFs) using poly(ethylene glycol) diglycidyl ether (PEGDGE) as a structure directing agent. Upon deliberate calcination, MIL-125(Ti) is converted to mesoporous hierarchical TiO2 (hier-TiO2) with an anatase phase, a large surface area and a variety of nanostructures. The morphology changes from 200 nm circular plates to 1 Jim bipyramids with increasing PEGDGE amount, indicating the pivotal role of PEGDGE as a shape controller. When the hier-TiO2 is deposited onto a nanocrystalline TiO2 (nc-TiO2) layer as the scattering layer, the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) with a quasi-solid-state polymer electrolyte records a high conversion efficiency (7.1% at 100 mW cm-2), which is much higher than that of DSSCs with a nc-TiO2 layer only (4.6%) or with commercial scattering TiO2 (cs-TiO2) on a nc-TiO2 layer (5.0%). A solid-state DSSC using a single component solid polymer, i.e., poly((1-(4ethenylphenypmethyl)-3-butyl-imidazolium iodide) (PEBII), also exhibits an excellent efficiency of up to 8.0%. The improved efficiency results from the pivotal role of the hier-TiO2 in improving the surface area and light harvesting properties, as demonstrated by N-2 adsorption/desorption isotherm, reflectance spectroscopy, incident photon-to-current efficiency (IPCE), and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) analyses.

• 出版日期2015