Sun-believable solar paint. A transformative one-step approach for designing nanocrystalline solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 865-872

  Genovese, Matthew P ^a   Lightcap, Ian V ^a   Kamat, Prashant V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

metal chalcogenides; photoconversion; photoelectrochemistry; semiconductor nanocrystals; solar cells; solar paint

Indexed keywords

METAL CHALCOGENIDE; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY; PHOTOCONVERSION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS; SOLAR PAINTS;

BRUSHES; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; CHALCOGENIDES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPPER; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE; NANOCRYSTALS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLID STATE DEVICES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

PAINT;

NANOMATERIAL; PAINT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PAINT; PARTICLE SIZE; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84856189268     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204381g     Document Type: Article

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