Single-wall carbon nanotubes as integrative building blocks for solar-energy conversion

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2015-2018

  Guldi, Dirk M ^a   Rahman, G M A ^b   Prato, Maurizio ^c   Jux, Norbert ^a   Qin, Shuhui ^d   Ford, Warren ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Charge separation; Porphyrinoids; Solar energy conversion; Zinc

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ENERGY CONVERSION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MONOCHROMATORS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PORPHYRINS; SOLAR ENERGY;

MONOCHROMATIC POWER CONVERSION; PHOTOCHEMICAL DEVICES; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 16844370006     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200462416     Document Type: Article

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