Influence of Mn-doping on the photocatalytic and solar cell efficiency of CuO nanowires

Environment friendly and low cost method has been used to synthesize CuO nanowires with different doping concentrations of Mn. The photo activity of doped nanowires was evaluated by the photocatalytic oxidation of Rhodamine B (RhB). The results showed that the 2% Mn doped CuO photocatalyst is much highly photoactive than non-doped or highly doped CuO. Further, the doped nanowires were employed in the hybrid solar cells in combination with P3HT and gave better current densities than their corresponding undoped counterparts.170