Rapid charge transport in dye-sensitized solar cells made from vertically aligned single-crystal rutile TiO 2 nanowires

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2727-2730

  Feng, Xinjian ^a   Zhu, Kai ^b   Frank, Arthur J ^b   Grimes, Craig A ^a   Mallouk, Thomas E ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion coefficients; metal oxides; nanoparticles; nanowires; solar cells

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING SUBSTRATES; DEFECT STATE DENSITY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; METAL OXIDES; NANOPARTICLE FILMS; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; RUTILE TIO; SOLVOTHERMAL APPROACH; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

DIFFUSION; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84858022174     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201108076     Document Type: Article

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