A cylindrical core-shell-like TiO2 nanotube array anode for flexible fiber-type dye-sensitized solar cells

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Yu, Jiefeng ^a   Wang, Dan ^a   Huang, Yining ^a   Fan, Xing ^a   Tang, Xin ^a   Gao, Cong ^a   Li, Jianlong ^a   Zou, Dechun ^a   Wu, Kai ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; NANOTUBES; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); TITANIUM DIOXIDE; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS;

ANODIZATION METHOD; CARRIER TRANSFER; CYLINDRICAL CORES; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; FLEXIBLE FIBERS; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TIO2 NANOTUBE ARRAYS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; NANOTUBE ARRAYS; PHOTO-ANODES; TIO;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84255204913     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-94     Document Type: Article

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