Preparation of highly electroactive cobalt sulfide coreshell nanosheets as counter electrodes for CdZnSSe nanostructure-sensitized solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2867-2873

  Yang, Zusing ^a   Chen, Chia Ying ^a   Chang, Huan Tsung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Counter electrode; Electrocatalytic activity; Nanomaterials; Ostwald ripening; Solar cells

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE CONDITIONS; AVERAGE POWER; CORE-SHELL; COUNTER ELECTRODES; ELECTROACTIVE; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; FACILE METHOD; MOLAR RATIO; POLY(VINYL PYRROLIDONE); THIOACETAMIDE;

COBALT; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; OSTWALD RIPENING; POLYSULFIDES;

NANOSHEETS;

EID: 79960563501     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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