Magnetron sputtering in the creation of photonic nanostructures derived from Sasakia Charonda Formosana-butterfly wings for applied in dye-sensitized solar cells

作者：Niu Haihong; Zhou Ru; Cheng Cong; Zhang Gonghai; Hu Yu; Huang Bin; Zhang Shouwei; Shang Xin; Xia Mei; Xu Jinzhang^*

来源：Journal of Power Sources, 2016, 325: 598-608.

DOI：10.1016/j.jpowsour.2016.06.060

• Complex nanostructures
• Hierarchically porous
• Light-scattering layer
• Photo-electrochemical conversions
• Photocurrent density
• Photonic nanostructures
• Power conversion efficiencies
• Sasakia Charonda Formosana-butterfly

Creating new functional materials derived from the structures seen on butterfly wings has achieved interest in a variety of research topics. However, there need a concision approach could result in a high-quality, precise, and convenient process for the fabrication of complex nanostructures replication with unique functionalities based on the butterfly wings. Here we developed a pithy approach based on a magnetron sputtering metal Ti process for biotemplating used to refine hierarchically porous titanium dioxide photonic crystal nanostructures (TiO2[Formula presented]), themselves derived from nanostructures present on the wings of Sasakia Charonda Formosana (S. Charonda) butterflies. For the first time, the TiO2[Formula presented] were deposited on the top of the P25 active layer and were used to fabricate DSSCs as the light-scattering layers of photoanodes with power conversion efficiencies of up to 8.7%. Remarkably, a much enhanced photocurrent density and a prominent photoelectrochemical conversion capability have been achieved, which are exceeding most of the previously reported photoanodes as well as a similar butterflies replication-based device structure. Our study suggests many exciting opportunities of developing artificially engineered butterfly wing-based solar-to-fuel conversion.

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  合肥工业大学