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    Wu, Wu-Qiang; Xu, Yang-Fan; Rao, Hua-Shang; Feng, Hao-Lin; Su, Cheng-Yong; Kuang, Dai-Bin

    Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), May 5, 2014, Letnik: 53, Številka: 19
    Journal Article

    Light‐harvesting and charge collection have attracted increasing attention in the domain of photovoltaic cells, and can be facilitated dramatically by appropriate design of a photonic nanostructure. However, the applicability of current light‐harvesting photoanode materials with single component and/or morphology (such as, particles, spheres, wires, sheets) is still limited by drawbacks such as insufficient electron–hole separation and/or light‐trapping. Herein, we introduce a universal method to prepare hierarchical assembly of macroporous material–nanowire coated homogenous or heterogeneous metal oxide composite electrodes (TiO2–TiO2, SnO2–TiO2, and Zn2SnO4–TiO2; homogenous refers to a material in which the nanowire and the macroporous material have the same composition, i.e. both are TiO2. Heterogeneous refers to a material in which the nanowires and the macroporous material have different compositions). The dye‐sensitized solar cell based on a TiO2‐macroporous material–TiO2‐nanowire homogenous composition electrode shows an impressive conversion efficiency of 9.51 %, which is much higher than that of pure macroporous material‐based photoelectrodes to date. Wired for light: A versatile method allows the preparation of nanowire‐coated macroporous material based homo‐ or heterogeneous metal oxide composite electrodes (TiO2–TiO2, SnO2–TiO2, and Zn2SnO4–TiO2). Dye‐sensitized solar cells based on macroporous TiO2/TiO2 nanowire homogeneous electrode show an impressive conversion efficiency as high as 9.51 %, which is much higher than those of pure macroporous material based photoelectrodes used up to date.