Abstract:
Nanocrystalline TiO
2 solution was prepared by hydro-thermal treatment at 230℃ with Titanium(Ⅳ) isopropoxide(C
12O
38O
4Ti) as precursor solution.Anatase TiO
2 nanocrystalline films with hierarchical structure were prepared on FTO glass substrates by electrohydrodynamic(EHD) technique and sintered at 450℃.Nanocrystalline Ag
2S/TiO
2 heterostructure films were deposited by chemical bath method using the AgNO
3 solution and Na
2S solution as the reactants.The crystal structure,morphology and optical property of the film were investigated.The photoelectrochemical cells have been assembled with nanocrystalline Ag
2S/TiO
2 heterostructure films as the photoanode.The results indicate that nanocrystalline TiO
2 films stack with the submicron spherical clusters,submicron and nanometer channels with wide dimension formed among the clusters which can facilitate the solution facilitation and ions adsorption.Ag
2S nanocrystalline exist in the Ag
2S/TiO
2 heterostructure Films within the range of 3 to 5nm.UV-vis absorbance spectra verifies the quantum confinement effects of Ag
2S nanocrystalline.The photoelectrochemical measurement shows the film possesses photoelectric response characteristic and its photoelectric property decays as illumination time prolonging.