Near-IR absorbing solar cell sensitized with bacterial photosynthetic membranes

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1467-1472

  Woronowicz, Kamil ^a   Ahmed, Saquib ^b   Biradar, Archana A ^a   Biradar, Ankush V ^a   Birnie, Dunbar P ^b   Asefa, Tewodros ^a,c   Niederman, Robert A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Piscataway   (United States)

^c The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMATOPHORE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; LIGHT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ENERGY;

BACTERIAL CHROMATOPHORES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CELL MEMBRANE; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHODOSPIRILLUM RUBRUM;

EID: 84868210535     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: 17511097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2012.01190.x     Document Type: Article

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