Virus-templated self-assembled single-walled carbon nanotubes for highly efficient electron collection in photovoltaic devices

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 377-384

  Dang, Xiangnan ^a,b   Yi, Hyunjung ^a,b   Ham, Moon Ho ^a   Qi, Jifa ^a,b   Yun, Dong Soo ^a,b   Ladewski, Rebecca ^a,b   Strano, Michael S ^a   Hammond, Paula T ^a,b   Belcher, Angela M ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOTUBES; SOLAR CELLS; TIO2 NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; VIRUSES; YARN;

CORE-SHELL NANOCOMPOSITES; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; ELECTRON COLLECTIONS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TIO2 NANOCRYSTALS;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

NANOCOMPOSITE; NANOCRYSTAL; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMICAL EFFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SYNTHESIS; VIRUS;

EID: 79960117044     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.50     Document Type: Article

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