Dye-sensitized solar cells: Insights and research divergence towards alternatives

R Sasikumar, S Thirumalaisamy, B Kim… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Non-renewable energy resources are being rapidly depleted due to the increasing rate of
energy consumption. This challenge has been addressed by adopting renewable energy …

Successful Growth of TiO2 Nanocrystals with {001} Facets for Solar Cells

SMH Qaid, HM Ghaithan, HS Bawazir, AF Bin Ajaj… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The growth of nanocrystals (NCs) from metal oxide-based substrates with exposed high-
energy facets is of particular importance for many important applications, such as solar cells …

Synthesis of pure brookite nanorods in a nonaqueous growth environment

M Hezam, SMH Qaid, IM Bedja, F Alharbi… - Crystals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Brookite TiO2 is the most difficult TiO2 polymorph to synthesize. The available methods in
the literature to produce brookite nanostructures mostly use water-based techniques for the …

Fluoride Removal Using Nanofiltration-Ranged Polyamide Thin-Film Nanocomposite Membrane Incorporated Titanium Oxide Nanosheets

FAA Ali, J Alam, SMH Qaid, AK Shukla, AS Al-Fatesh… - Nanomaterials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Drinking water defluoridation has attracted significant attention in the scientific community,
from which membrane technology, by exploring thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes …

Facile Synthesis of a Multifunctional SnO2 Nanoparticles/Nanosheets Composite for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

D Wang, Y Li, Y Ding, X Jia, D Zhong, X Zhang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Synthesizing SnO2 composite nanostructures via a facile one-step method has been proven
to be a great challenge. By adjusting operating variables, such as the reaction solution's pH …

ZnO Nanosheet-Nanowire morphology tuning for Dye-sensitized solar cell applications

M Hezam, MQ Alsubaie, A Algarni, H Ghaithan… - Chemical Physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, ZnO nanosheet-nanowire morphology tuning could be achieved by simply
changing the NaOH concentration in a low-temperature chemical bath. Our method …

3D hierarchical flower-like rutile TiO2 nanospheres-based versatile photocatalyst

Y Du, X Xu, L Lin, M Ge, D He - Journal of Materials Science, 2018 - Springer
Abstract 3D hierarchical flower-like TiO 2 nanospheres with rutile phase were synthesized
via a facile hydrothermal method without further calcination. The morphology, crystalline …

Effects of annealing temperature on TiO2 photoelectrodes of dye-sensitized solar cells using Ixora coccenia dye extract

EO Onah, MA Onuorah, SU Offiah, RM Obodo… - Journal of Nanoparticle …, 2021 - Springer
Ixora coccinea flower was utilized as source of natural dye to fabricate dye sensitized solar
cells (DSSCs) using TiO 2 electrodes. The electrodes were fabricated using Doctor Blade's …

The validity of Kohlrausch law for the photocurrent transient and the role of N2/Ar flow ratio in photoconductivity of sputtered CoZnO

M Soylu, B Coskun, AG Al-Sehemi… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Co: ZnO (CZnO) ferromagnetic semiconductor layers are coated on the surface of
glass and Si substrates by Magnetron Sputter Deposition Method (MSDM) with variable N …

Structural and optical investigation of brookite TiO2 thin films grown by atomic layer deposition on Si (111) substrates

SMH Qaid, M Hussain, M Hezam, MAM Khan… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, titanium dioxide (TiO 2) thin films, deposited on single crystal Si (111)
substrates under different temperature conditions by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), have …