Synthesis of graphene-CoS electro-catalytic electrodes for dye sensitized solar cells

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4815-4821

  Das, Santanu ^a   Sudhagar, P ^b   Nagarajan, S ^b   Ito, Eisuke ^c   Lee, Sang Yun ^c   Kang, Yong Soo ^b   Choi, Wonbong ^a,b  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFM; CATALYTIC SITES; CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; CONDUCTING PATHS; DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCATALYTIC ELECTRODES; EXCHANGE CURRENT DENSITIES; FILM ELECTRODES; FILM FABRICATION; IONIC LAYERS; SYNTHESIS PROCESS;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; GRAPHENE; IODINE; SOLAR CELLS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84864468311     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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