Fabrication of Spherical
Multi-Hollow TiO<sub>2</sub> Nanostructures for Photoanode Film with
Enhanced Light-Scattering
Performance
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Abstract
Spherical multihollow (MH) TiO<sub>2</sub> nanostructures
have
been synthesized via a microemulsion-based approach with titanium
glycerolate complexes formation at glycerol microemulsions interface.
The self-aggregation of those microemulsions induces the formation
of MH TiO<sub>2</sub> nanospheres. Owing to this hierarchical hollow
structure, photoanode films derived from MH TiO<sub>2</sub> nanosphere
as light scattering layer exhibits an enhanced light harvesting efficiency,
thus leading to a 43% increment of photovoltaic performance compared
to that from P25 nanoparticle film
