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Pores in Nanostructured TiO2 Films. Size Distribution and Pore Permeability

Vargas-Florencia, Dulce
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Edvinsson, Tomas
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Hagfeldt, Anders  
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2007
Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Nanoporous films of cryst. anatase with intended application in dye-sensitized photovoltaic cells were studied by NMR cryoporometry, NMR diffusiometry, electron microscopy, and x-ray diffraction. The nanoparticles from which the films were subsequently sintered were prepd. in 2 ways, one with an acidic and one with a basic aq. process environment and along different temp. regimes. The av. morphol. was similar in all films as indicated by the roughly identical 〈2κV/S〉 values where κ is the mean curvature of the pore surface and S/V denotes the surface-to-vol. ratio. Self-diffusion of H2O in the pores is strongly reduced with respect to that of bulk and is influenced both by micrometer-scale obstructions to mol. displacement and by pore-size effect in pore interconnectivity. The studied samples exhibit different transport regimes as concerning those phenomena. In this initial study performed on a limited set of samples, the authors found no linear correlation between particle and pore sizes. Instead, total porosity is controlled by particle-particle jamming which, together with particle size polydispersity, may also dominate the effects that lead to the obsd. pore size distributions for the different samples. The rich variation of structural effects and transport properties among the few prepd. films call for further studies to find an optimal film structure.

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DOI
10.1021/jp070321y
Author(s)
Vargas-Florencia, Dulce
Edvinsson, Tomas
Hagfeldt, Anders  
Furo, Istvan
Date Issued

2007

Published in
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Volume

111

Start page

7605

End page

7611

Subjects

pore size titanium oxide nanoporous film permeability

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

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July 6, 2015
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