Sub-micrometer-sized graphite as a conducting and catalytic counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 857-862

  Veerappan, Ganapathy ^a   Bojan, Karunagaran ^a   Rhee, Shi Woo ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

catalytic activity; charge transfer resistance; conducting catalytic electrode; counter electrode; dye sensitized solar cell; graphite layer

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC ACTIVITY; CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; CONDUCTING CATALYTIC ELECTRODE; COUNTER ELECTRODE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; GRAPHITE LAYER;

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHARGE TRANSFER; COLLOIDAL GRAPHITE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY CONVERSION; FLUORINE; GRAPHITE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; ION EXCHANGE; MASS TRANSFER; MICROMETERS; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PLATINUM; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

SOLAR CELLS;

COLORING AGENT; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; COLORING AGENTS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79956005348     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am101204f     Document Type: Article

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