High-performance dye-sensitized solar cells based on solvent-free electrolytes produced from eutectic melts

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 626-630

  Bai, Yu ^a   Cao, Yiming ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Wang, Mingkui ^b   Li, Renzhi ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^b  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROLYTES; EUTECTICS; IONIC LIQUIDS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLVENTS; VISCOSITY;

ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; EXCITONIC SOLAR CELLS; HETEROLEPTIC RUTHENIUM COMPLEXES; NANOCRYSTALLINE TITANIA FILMS; ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; ROOM TEMPERATURE IONIC LIQUIDS; SOLVENT-FREE ELECTROLYTE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 49249085777     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2224     Document Type: Article

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