LO MEJOR DEL CIN2 NUESTRAS INVESTIGACIONES MÁS IMPORTANTES
- Jul 11, 2010 PROF. LAURA M. LECHUGA: Invited Lecture: "FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOSENSING" at Photonics Workshop 2010. Mexico, July 11-21.
- Jun 29, 2010 Prof. Pedro Gómez-Romero publica el capítulo: "La Re-evolución de la energía" en el libro de la Comisión Nacional de la Energía (CNE): "El sector energético ante un nuevo escenario"
- Jun 29, 2010 Critical Review on Polymeric Fuel Cells in Chemical Society Reviews
- Jun 23, 2010 Coexistence of Two Thermally Induced Intramolecular Electron Transfer Processes in a Series of Metal Complexes
- Jun 23, 2010 Metal-Radical Chains Based on Polychlorotriphenylmethyl Radicals: Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetic Properties.
- Jun 23, 2010 Coordination polymer particles as potential drug delivery systems
- Jun 22, 2010 The beta-to-gamma Transition in BiFeO3: A Powder Neutron Diffraction Study
- Jun 22, 2010 Evidence of anion-ordering in (TMTSF)2ClO4 electrodeposited on silicon wafers
- Jun 22, 2010 A first principle study of the structural, vibrational and electronic properties of tetrathiafulvalene adsorbed on Ag(110) and Au(110) surfaces
- Jun 22, 2010 Two-dimensional wetting:The role of atomic steps on the nucleation of thin water films on BaF[sub2](111) at ambient conditions
- Jun 13, 2010 Desarrollan nanocápsulas de carbono que podrían servir para tratar tumores
- Jun 08, 2010 Dr. Monica Lira-Cantu: "Application of Nb-doped Ti02/Polymer in hybrid solar cells", invited conference at E-MRS Spring Meeting 2010, Strasbourg, France.
- Jun 07, 2010 Two-Dimensional Phase Behavior of a Bimolecular Porphyrin System at the Solid-Vacuum Interface.
- May 25, 2010 Topology of the polarization field in ferroelectric nanowires from first principles
- May 14, 2010 Modeling graphene-based nanoelectromechanical devices
- May 13, 2010 Robust Spin Polarization and Spin Textures on Stepped Au(111) Surfaces
- May 11, 2010 Advances in layered oxide cathodes for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells
- May 10, 2010 Quantum Transport in Graphene Nanoribbons: Effects of Edge: Reconstruction and Chemical Reactivity,
- Apr 29, 2010 Tuning the band gap of semiconducting carbon nanotube by an axial magnetic field
- Apr 29, 2010 Inelastic Transport in Vibrating Disordered Carbon Nanotubes: Scattering Times and Temperature-Dependent Decoherence Effects
- Apr 28, 2010 Nb-TiO2/polymer hybrid solar cells with photovoltaic response under inert atmosphere conditions
- Apr 28, 2010 Dye sensitized solar cells based on vertically-aligned ZnO nanorods: effect of UV light on power conversion efficiency and lifetime
- Apr 19, 2010 CIN2 Scientists participate at the 8th Fira Recerca en Directe 2010
- Apr 17, 2010 Organization and participation on Conference about Micro and Nanoencapsulation
- Apr 13, 2010 Plasmon-Induced Magneto-Optical Activity in Nanosized Gold Disks
- Apr 13, 2010 Optical Forces in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Dimers
- Apr 12, 2010 The flexoelectricity of barium and strontium titanates from first principles
- Mar 29, 2010 Develop a new method for making artificial snow more sustainable and economic
- Mar 22, 2010 CIN2 researchers comment on press about the inauguration of Alba Synchrotron
- Mar 15, 2010 CIN2 researcher comments a publication about Nanotubes
- Feb 12, 2010 Highlight in 'Physics' and PRB Editors' Suggestion: Effect of crystalline disorder on quantum tunneling in the single-molecule magnet Mn12 benzoate
- Jan 21, 2010 Enhanced Gold Nanoparticle Based ELISA for a Breast Cancer Biomarker
- Jan 12, 2010 Current-driven spin torque induced by the Rashba effect in a ferromagnetic metal layer
- Jan 04, 2010 Alignment of magnetic anisotropy axes in crystals of Mn12 acetate and Mn12-tBuAc molecular nanomagnets: Angle-dependent ac susceptibility study
Apr 28, 2010
Dye sensitized solar cells based on vertically-aligned ZnO nanorods: effect of UV light on power conversion efficiency and lifetime
Electrodes made of vertically-aligned ZnO nanorods (NRs) have been prepared and analyzed in dye sensitized solar cells (DSC). We report a 
20% power conversion efficiency increase during the first hours of solar cell testing at 1000 W m-2 (AM 1.5). The latter has been attributed to the physisorption/chemisorption of the N-719 dye on the ZnO NRs induced by UV-light irradiation. The ZnO NRs were grown by the hydrothermal method for 6 h obtaining a ZnO layer thickness of about 1.8 
m. The highest solar cell efficiency obtained was 0.69% after UV light irradiation (at 72 °C, 0.63 V, 2.85 mA cm-2, 0.39 FF). The effect of UV light has been monitored by UV-VIS, IV-curves and IPCE analyses with time, and has been related to the solar cell performance.
