Amplifying charge-transfer characteristics of graphene for triiodide reduction in dye-sensitized solar cells

Advanced Functional Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3729-3736

  Das, Santanu ^a   Sudhagar, P ^b   Verma, Ved ^a   Song, Donghoon ^b   Ito, Eisuke ^c   Lee, Sang Yun ^c   Kang, Yong Soo ^b   Choi, Wonbong ^a,b  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; electrocatalysis; graphene; iodine reduction; plasma functionalization

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC SITES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTROCATALYTIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; FLUORINE IONS; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; PLASMA FUNCTIONALIZATION; PLASMA TREATMENT; REDOX POTENTIALS; STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION; THERMAL CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; TRIIODIDE;

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORINE; HIGH RESOLUTION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; IODINE; MONOLAYERS; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONS; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REDOX REACTIONS; REDUCTION; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 80053282012     PISSN: 1616301X     EISSN: 16163028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201101191     Document Type: Article

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