TiO 2 derived by titanate route from electrospun nanostructures for high-performance dye-sensitized solar cells

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 6202-6206

  Nair, A Sreekumaran ^a   Zhu, Peining ^a   Jagadeesh Babu, V ^a   Yang, Shengyuan ^b   Krishnamoorthy, Thirumal ^c   Murugan, Rajendiran ^a   Peng, Shengjie ^c   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTROSPUN NANOSTRUCTURES; ELECTROSPUNS; HIGH SURFACE AREA; PHOTOVOLTAIC PARAMETERS; TIO;

NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COLORING AGENT; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY;

COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM;

EID: 84859909329     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la301172g     Document Type: Article

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