Quasi solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell incorporating highly conducting polythiophene-coated carbon nanotube composites in ionic liquid

Advances in OptoElectronics

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Karim, Mohammad Rezaul ^a   Islam, Ashraful ^a,b   Singh, Surya Prakash ^b   Han, Liyuan ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON-NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; CELL EFFICIENCY; COUNTER ELECTRODES; DYE SENSITIZED; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTIONS; ELECTRON TRANSFER MATERIAL; IMIDAZOLIUM; POROUS TIO; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; IODINE; IONIC LIQUIDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PLATINUM; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 80053516221     PISSN: 1687563X     EISSN: 16875648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/357974     Document Type: Article

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