Fabrication of highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cell and CO 2 reduction photocatalyst using TiO2 nanoparticles prepared by spin coating-assisted sol-gel method

Journal of the Iranian Chemical Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 143-149

  Oftadeh, M ^a,b   Aghtar, A ^a   Esfahani, M Nasr ^c   Salavati Niasari, Masoud ^d   Mir, Noshin ^d  

^a PAYAME NOOR UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Najafabad Branch ^*  (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KASHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC); Photocatalytic redox reaction; Sol gel; Spin coating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863669231     PISSN: 1735207X     EISSN: 17352428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13738-011-0017-8     Document Type: Article

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