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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2011, Article ID 269591, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2011/269591 Research Article CdSe Quantum Dots Sensitized Mesoporous TiO2 Solar Cells with CuSCN as Solid-State Electrolyte Guanbi Chen, Lei Wang, Yu Zou, Xia Sheng, Hongjuan Liu, Xiaodong Pi, and Deren Yang State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and Department of Materials Science Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China Correspondence should be addressed to Deren Yang, mseyang@ Received 1 May 2010; Revised 29 June 2010; Accepted 16 August 2010 Academic Editor: Bo Zou Copyright © 2011 Guanbi Chen 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. Mesoporous TiO2 is functionalized by 3-mercaptopropyl trimethyoxysilane (MPTMS) to anchor CdSe quantum dots (QDs). The resulting TiO2 /CdSe is combined with solid-state electrolyte (CuSCN) to form solar cells. It is found that the efficiency of electron injection from QDs to TiO2 can be improved owing to the substitution of the long chains of organic capping agents at the surface of QDs with MPTMS. The hydrolyzate of MPTMS forms an insulating barrier layer to reduce the recombination at the TiO2 /CdSe interface, leading to the increase of open-circuit voltage (Voc ). 1. Introduction the work on CdSe QDs-sensitized TiO2 that bifunctional surface modifiers with shorter chains can assemble QDs on As the supplies of fossil fuel are expected to decrease, TiO2 [4, 5]. Mainly, the effects of the modifiers