Designing aligned inorganic nanotubes at the electrode interface: Towards highly efficient photovoltaic wires

Advanced Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 4623-4628

  Chen, Tao ^a   Qiu, Longbin ^a   Kia, Hamid G ^b   Yang, Zhibin ^a   Peng, Huisheng ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chemical Sciences and Materials Systems Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

aligned carbon nanotubes; dye sensitized solar cells; photovoltaic wires; titanium dioxide nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBES; CHARGE SEPARATIONS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRODE INTERFACE; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; INORGANIC NANOTUBES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOTUBES; WEAVING TECHNIQUE;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NANOTUBES; OXIDES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; WEAVING;

WIRE;

CARBON NANOTUBE; COLORING AGENT; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; POWER SUPPLY; SUNLIGHT;

COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; SUNLIGHT; TITANIUM;

EID: 84865588870     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201201893     Document Type: Article

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