Toward a more efficient utilisation of betalains as pigments for Dye-Sensitized solar cells

Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 339-351

  Dumbrava A ^a   Enache, I ^a,b   Oprea, C I ^a   Georgescu, A ^a   Girtu M A ^a  

^a OVIDIUS UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b Constanţa Maritime University ^*  (Romania)

Author keywords

Betalains; Dye Sensitized solar cells; Electronic spectra; Nanocrystalline TiO2; Photovoltaic conversion efficiency; Time dependent density functional theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858133398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18423582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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