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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 212653, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/212653 Research Article Correlation between the Morphology and Performance Enhancement of ZnO Hierarchical Flower Photoanodes in Quasi-Solid Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Chao Zhu, Yantao Shi, Chun Cheng, Lin Wang, Kwok Kwong Fung, and Ning Wang Department of Physics and the William Mong Institute of Nano Science and Technology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Correspondence should be addressed to Ning Wang, phwang@ust.hk Received 26 April 2012; Accepted 19 August 2012 Academic Editor: Jianguang Jia Copyright © 2012 Chao Zhu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We report an effective method for mass production of ZnO hierarchical flowers (HFs) that are constructed by interlaced single crystalline ZnO nanosheets with dominant surfaces of {1120} and {1100}. The size of ZnO HFs, thickness and parking density of the nanosheets, and HF inner porosity can be tuned by changing the synthesis conditions. The HFs containing porous inner structures showed an excellent performance as the photoanode material in quasi-solid (using polymer gel electrolytes) dye- sensitized solar cells (DSCs) because of their superior optical and electrical properties. The high current density (10.26 mA cm−2 ) and efficiency (4.93%) of the HF-based DSCs indicate a great potential for the development of high-efficient quasi-solid DSCs. 1. Introduction photoanode material because its electron mobility is much