Carbon nanotube counter electrode for high efficient fibrous dye-sensitized solar cells

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Huang, Shuqing ^a   Sun, Huicheng ^a   Huang, Xiaoming ^a   Zhang, Quanxin ^a   Li, Dongmei ^a   Luo, Yanhong ^a   Meng, Qingbo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Counter electrode; Fibrous dye sensitized solar cells

Indexed keywords

CARBON FILMS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CHARGE TRANSFER; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; PLATINUM; THIN FILMS; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES; WIRE;

CATALYTIC BEHAVIOR; COUNTER ELECTRODES; CURRENT-VOLTAGE MEASUREMENTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE; FIBROUS DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; FLUORINE TIN OXIDES; HIGH EFFICIENT; IODIDE/TRI-IODIDE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84860689390     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-222     Document Type: Article

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