Shinde, Dipak V. Patil, Supriya A. Cho, Keumnam Ahn, Do Young Shrestha, Nabeen K. Mane, Rajaram S. Lee, Joong Kee Han, Sung-Hwan 2024-01-20T06:03:30Z 2024-01-20T06:03:30Z 2021-09-05 2015-09-23 1616-301X https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/124998 Nanostructured thin films of metal sulfides (MS) are highly desirable materials for various optoelectronic device applications. However, a general low-temperature protocol that describes deposition of varieties of MS structures, especially in their film form is still not available in literatures. Here, a simple and highly effective general solution-based deposition protocol for highly crystalline and well-defined nanostructured MS thin films from ethanol on variety of conducting and non-conducting substrates is presented. The films display remarkable electronic properties such as high carrier mobility and high conductivity. When NiS thin film deposited on a flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate is used as a fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO)-free counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells, it exhibits a solar-to-electric power conversion efficiency of 9.27 +/- 0.26% with the highest conversion efficiency as high as 9.50% (vs 8.97 +/- 0.07% exhibited by Pt-electrode). In addition, the NiS film deposited on a Ti-foil has demonstrated an outstanding catalytic activity for the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions from water. English WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH SENSITIZED SOLAR-CELLS CHEMICAL BATH DEPOSITION FREE COUNTER ELECTRODE ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE ACTIVE EDGE SITES HIGH-PERFORMANCE VAPOR-DEPOSITION NANOROD ARRAYS CDS Revisiting Metal Sulfide Semiconductors: A Solution-Based General Protocol for Thin Film Formation, Hall Effect Measurement, and Application Prospects Article 10.1002/adfm.201500964 1 ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, v.25, no.36, pp.5739 - 5747 ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 25 36 5739 5747 scie scopus 000362517900002 2-s2.0-84942191255 Chemistry, Multidisciplinary Chemistry, Physical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Materials Science, Multidisciplinary Physics, Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Chemistry Science & Technology - Other Topics Materials Science Physics Article SENSITIZED SOLAR-CELLS CHEMICAL BATH DEPOSITION FREE COUNTER ELECTRODE ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE ACTIVE EDGE SITES HIGH-PERFORMANCE VAPOR-DEPOSITION NANOROD ARRAYS CDS general protocols Hall effect metal sulfides Pt-free electrocatalysts thin films