Long-term thermal stability of liquid dye solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 8636-8646

  Kontos, Athanassios G ^a   Stergiopoulos, Thomas ^a   Likodimos, Vlassis ^a   Milliken, Damion ^b   Desilvesto, Hans ^b   Tulloch, Gavin ^b   Falaras, Polycarpos ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b Dyesol Limited Company   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE; ELECTROLYTE DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; ILLUMINATION INTENSITY; LINEAR SWEEP VOLTAMMETRY; MATERIALS AND PROCESS; SHORT-CIRCUIT PHOTOCURRENT; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT;

CHARGE TRANSFER; LIQUIDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS; SOLVENTS; THERMAL AGING; THERMAL STRESS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

ELECTROLYTES;

EID: 84877053219     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp400060d     Document Type: Article

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