An efficient thiolate/disulfide redox couple based dye-sensitized solar cell with a graphene modified mesoscopic carbon counter electrode

Carbon

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-18

  Liu, Guanghui ^a   Li, Xiong ^a   Wang, Heng ^a   Rong, Yaoguang ^a   Ku, Zhiliang ^a   Xu, Mi ^a   Liu, Linfeng ^a   Hu, Min ^a   Yang, Ying ^a   Han, Hongwei ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON COUNTER ELECTRODES; CARBON ELECTRODE; CARBON MATERIAL; COUNTER ELECTRODES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; GRAPHENE SHEETS; MESOSCOPICS; REDOX COUPLE; TAFEL POLARIZATION; THIOLATES;

CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IODINE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PLATINUM; SOLAR CELLS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84871288098     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.10.007     Document Type: Article

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