Electrochemical Deposition of ZnO

Nanorods on Transparent Reduced

Graphene Oxide Electrodes for Hybrid
Solar Cells Inter science. 2010 A

Presentation
Tran Ngoc Cuong
2010/11/27
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 Abstract

Monocrystalline ZnO nanorods with high donor concentration are

electrochemically deposited reduced graphene oxide films on quartz.

 Vertically aligned ZnO nanorod arrays were grown on a glass subtrate

by using hydrothermal method.

 The GO sheet were physically attached to the tip by assembling the

sheets on the nanorod.

 Graphene nanomesh is treated by using the photocatalytic property of

the ZnO nanorod contained smaller oxygen.

 Graphene nanomesh reduced by hydrazine showed as a broad sheet of

P-type semiconductor
 Method analysis and results

The apparatus in used: X-ray diffraction,

transmission electron microscopy, photoluminescence, and Raman spectra.

Results:

- The obtained ZnO NRs on rGO are used

to fabricate inorganic–organic hybrid solar cells.
- The rGO films with a higher conductivity have a
smaller work function and show a better performance in the fabricated solar
cells.
-XPS and showed that partical photocatalytic reduction of GO during the local
photo-degradation of graphene sheet at the contact place with the tip of the
ZnO nanorod.

- The Graphene nanomesh presented a P-type semiconducting behavior in a

wide sheet with no doping.
 Fabrication of GNM
1. Mechanically peeled off GO
PMMA block as the starting material.

Mechanically 2. GO were assembled on

SiO2 wafer peel off
Transfer ZnO nanorods using PMMA
etch transfer method.
Removing
PMMA ZnO
3. Removing PMMA in water.
nanorods

4. illuminated by UV-Led
source (5 mW/cm2, 255 nm)
UV source Glass subtrate
for 10 h.

5. GNM obtain were also

C=O reduced by hydrazine vapor
for 1h.

C-OH
Results and discussion

Fig a: AFM images of the GO

sheets.

Height show the thickness of

the sheet was 0.9nm

Fig b: AFM images of the

graphene nanomeshes
- Some pores are clearly seen on
the sheet, formating of porous
sheet
- Thickness of the over sheets
were smaller than GO.
The GO nanosheets deposited on the TiO2 thin film
Fig a: as-deposited

Fig b: annealed at 400 °C

Fig c: exposed to UV-visible

light irradiation for 4 h in the
photocatalytic reduction
process.
 Graphene oxide structure

Schematic of graphene oxide structure

Chemical reduction such as hydrazine, hydroquinone, sodium borohydride

(NaBH4) has been presented as an effective way to remove oxygen functional
groups from GO
 Raman spectra
1348 cm-1
1583 cm-1 After reduced by hydrazine
-Raman spectroscopy was used
to study the ordered/disordered
crystal structures .

GNM 2673 cm-1

- The ratio ID/IG increased due to
creating of the pores (as defects
and disorders) in the graphene
GO sheet 2683 cm-1
sheets
 Mechanism of photocatalyst

XPS valence spectra

Electron will move easily from ZnO nanorods to Graphene, and global
reduction of the sheets.
The holes accumulated in the tip of the ZnO nanorods could produce active
OH- radicals near the surface of the tip for the local oxidation and the local
degradation of the sheets

The larger diameter of the pores due to higher humidity near the hydrophilic
tip of the nanorods.
 Sumary

Advantage:

-Graphene nanomesh were synthesized using local photodegradation of GO

sheets by the tip of vertically aligned ZnO nanorod arrays.

-The graphene nanomeshes presented a p-type semiconducting behavior in a

wide sheet and with no doping .Therefore the Nanomeash structure is able to
open up a band gap in a large sheet of graphene.

Disadvantage:

- The asymmetrical shape of the 2D band is clearly seen, showing the presence
of the multilayer graphene nanomesh in the samples.