Bansal, Jyoti and swami, Sanjay Kumar and Singh, Akanksha and Sarao, Tarnija and Dutta, Viresh and Hafiz, A. K. and Sharma, Shailesh Narain (2019) Apparatus-dependent sol-gel synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles for dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, 42 (3). pp. 432-439. ISSN 0193-2691

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Abstract

Synthesis of titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) has been done by sol-gel-hydrothermal colloidal route in two different apparatus; one being simple stainless steel (named as TiO2-B) and other being at constant temperature and pressure autoclave (named as TiO2-W). These TiO2 NPs were investigated by various characterization techniques such as scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffractometer (XRD), and photoluminescence spectrophotometer. Also, it was observed that the quality of the synthesized TiO2-W NPs is comparable with the commercial TiO2 NPs (TiO2-C), whereas the cost of synthesis is almost reduced to half. The synthesized TiO2 NPs are used as the photoanode in dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). DSSC with TiO2-W showed better power conversion efficiency as compared to DSSC with TiO2-B.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to M/s Taylor and Francis.
Subjects:	Chemistry > Physical Chemistry
Divisions:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Mr. Yogesh Joshi
Date Deposited:	19 Aug 2026 11:44
Last Modified:	19 Aug 2026 11:44
URI:	https://npl.csircentral.net/id/eprint/4351

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