Fast production of ZnO nanorods by arc discharge in de-ionized water and applications in dye-sensitized solar cells

dc.authoridSONMEZOGLU, Savas/0000-0002-6011-3504
dc.authoridToumiat, amor/0000-0002-5664-9744
dc.authoridESKIZEYBEK, VOLKAN/0000-0002-5373-0379
dc.contributor.authorSonmezoglu, S.
dc.contributor.authorEskizeybek, V.
dc.contributor.authorToumiat, A.
dc.contributor.authorAvci, A.
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T20:46:13Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T20:46:13Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractFast production of the ZnO nanorods by bottom up approach using arc discharge method in de-ionized water was carried out. Structural analysis showed that the obtained ZnO powder exhibits crystallize in the hexagonal wurtzite structure with (101) preferential orientation. Furthermore, transmission electron microscopy observations showed that rod-like structure is the abundant form with a bimodial grain size distribution around 10 and 30 nm. Optical characterization of the as-synthesized ZnO nanorods revealed the existence of the two absorption and photoluminescence (PL) bands both located at UV spectral region attributed to the two grain size distributions. In addition, the two additional visible bands PL spectrum located at 430 and 492 nm are attributed the interstitial zinc and oxygen vacancies; respectively. Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were successfully produced via different ruthenium based dyes and ferrocene liquid electrolyte by using of as synthesized ZnO nanorods modified photoanodes. It has been found that DSSCs made with N719 dye is the most efficient with photoconversion of approximately 7% compared to the other dyes. Such nanorod form of the ZnO nanostructures with ruthenium dyes resulted in significant improvements of the device performance in terms of electron transportation and UV light absorption. This work would explore feasible routes to synthesize efficient metal-oxide nanostructures for opto-electronic or other related applications. Published by Elsevier B. V.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jallcom.2013.10.102
dc.identifier.endpage599
dc.identifier.issn0925-8388
dc.identifier.issn1873-4669
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84887269962
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage593
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2013.10.102
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/24838
dc.identifier.volume586
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000329856800094
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier Science Sa
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Alloys and Compounds
dc.relation.publicationcategoryinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20250125
dc.subjectArc discharge
dc.subjectZnO
dc.subjectNanorods
dc.subjectDye-sensitized solar cell
dc.titleFast production of ZnO nanorods by arc discharge in de-ionized water and applications in dye-sensitized solar cells
dc.typeArticle

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