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Carboxylic Acid Group-Induced Oxygen Vacancy Migration on an Anatase (101) Surface.
Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids 2018 January 10
Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have aroused intensive interest for the replacement of conventional crystalline silicon solar cells. Through carboxylic acid groups, the dyes attach to the TiO2 anatase (101) surface, on which the subsurface oxygen vacancies (Vosub s) are predominant. The performance of DSSCs can be affected by the presence and positions of oxygen vacancies (Vos). By applying density functional theory calculations, we found that the adsorption of a carboxylic acid group-decorated dye molecule reverses the relative stability between the surface oxygen vacancy (Vosurf ) and Vosub on the anatase (101) surface, which facilitates the migration of the Vo from the subsurface to the surface by overcoming an energy barrier of less than 0.16 eV, which is significantly lower than the 1.01 eV energy barrier on the clean surface. Further, ab initio molecular dynamics simulations indicate that the Vosub can easily migrate to the surface at room temperature. This dynamic interplay between the Vo of the anatase (101) surface and the carboxylic acid group would be important for future studies concerning the stability and photovoltaic efficiency of the solar cells.
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