Pt-like behavior of high-performance counter electrodes prepared from binary tantalum compounds showing high electrocatalytic activity for dye-sensitized solar cells

ChemSusChem

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 411-416

  Yun, Sining ^a   Wu, Mingxing ^b,e   Wang, Yudi ^b   Shi, Jing ^c   Lin, Xiao ^b   Hagfeldt, Anders ^d   Ma, Tingli ^b  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

electrocatalytic reactions; electrochemistry; energy conversion; solar cells; tantalum

Indexed keywords

COUNTER ELECTRODES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC REACTIONS; FIRST PRINCIPLES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE;

CATALYST ACTIVITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTROCATALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY CONVERSION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PLATINUM; TANTALUM; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS;

SOLAR CELLS;

COLORING AGENT; PLATINUM; TANTALUM;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; POWER SUPPLY; SOLAR ENERGY;

CATALYSIS; COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; PLATINUM; SOLAR ENERGY; TANTALUM;

EID: 84874741897     PISSN: 18645631     EISSN: 1864564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201200845     Document Type: Article

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