Hydrothermal fabrication of hierarchically anatase TiO2 nanowire arrays on FTO glass for dye-sensitized solar cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wu, Wu Qiang ^a   Lei, Bing Xin ^a   Rao, Hua Shang ^a   Xu, Yang Fan ^a   Wang, Yu Fen ^a   Su, Cheng Yong ^a   Kuang, Dai Bin ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84874640880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01352     Document Type: Article

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