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Influence of surfactants on electrochemical growth of CdSe nanostructures and their photoelectrochemical performance

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Cadmium selenide (CdSe) thin films were grown by electrochemical technique on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO)-coated conducting glass substrates in the presence of organic surfactants. The influence of organic surfactants like polyethylene glycol (PEG) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) on different physico-chemical properties and its subsequent impact on photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance of CdSe thin films have been investigated. It has observed that the organic surfactants play an important role in modifying the surface morphology of CdSe thin films. The compact grain like morphology of pure CdSe is tuned to interconnected nanofibrous network on addition of PEG and to sprouting nanorods like morphology on addition of PVP. Among these nanostructures, CdSe sprouting nanorods exhibits improved power conversion efficiency of 0.55% as compared to nanofibrous (0.24%) and granular CdSe (0.16%) nanostructures. It reveals the fourfold enhancement in the PEC performance on PVP-mediated growth which can be attributed to conversion of compact dense nanostructure to porous and relatively high surface area nanostructure. This work exemplifies the ability of organic surfactant to modulate the surface morphology of the electrodeposits and pinpoints the organic surfactant that gives rise to the suitable morphology for PEC solar cell application.

TOC: The morphology of CdSe nanostructure has successfully tuned with use of surfactants to enhance the photoelectrochemical solar cell performance.

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Acknowledgements

One of the authors B. B. Sinha is grateful to the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India for award of Inspire fellowship. One of the authors S. A. Vanalakar is thankful to the University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi, India for providing fellowships under Raman Fellowship for Post-Doc Research in USA scheme (File No. 5/155/2016 (IC)). This work was partly supported by the converging research center program funded by the Ministry of science, ICT and Future planning (2013K000407) and Human Resource Development of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korea government Ministry of Knowledge Economy (no. 20124010203180).

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  1. GMD arts BW commerce and science college, SPPU, Sinnar, Nashik, Maharashtra, 422103, India

    A. S. Kamble & S. S. Kale

  2. Department of Physics, Karmaveer Hire Arts, Science, Commerce and Education College, Gargoti, 416-009, India

    V. L. Patil & S. A. Vanalakar

  3. Thin Film Materials laboratory, Department of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, 416004, India

    V. L. Patil & P. S. Patil

  4. Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India

    B. B. Sinha

  5. Korea Institute of Material Science, Changwon, 642-831, South Korea

    B. B. Sinha

  6. Shri S.H. Kelkar College of arts, commerce and science, Devgad, Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, 416613, India

    S. L. Dhere

  7. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, South Korea

    J. H. Kim

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Kamble, A.S., Patil, V.L., Sinha, B.B. et al. Influence of surfactants on electrochemical growth of CdSe nanostructures and their photoelectrochemical performance. J Solid State Electrochem 21, 2649–2653 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-017-3651-y

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