Controlled growth of TiO2 nanotubes on conducting glass

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-162

  Weickert, Jonas ^a   Palumbiny, Claudia ^a   Nedelcu, Mihaela ^a   Bein, Thomas ^a   Schmidt Mende, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM FLUORIDE; ANODIZATIONS; BATH TEMPERATURES; CONDUCTING GLASS; CONTROLLED GROWTH; ETHYLENE GLYCOL SOLUTIONS; FULL CONTROL; GLASS SUBSTRATES; HYBRID SOLAR CELLS; INNER TUBES; NANOTUBULAR; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); REGULAR STRUCTURE; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; TI FILM; TI FOIL; TIO; TUBE LENGTH; TUBE WALLS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GLASS; NANOTUBES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR CELLS; SUBSTRATES; TITANIUM; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 78751560463     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm102389m     Document Type: Article

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