Annealing effects on self-assembled TiO2 nanotubes and their behavior as photoelectrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 121-127

  Vaenas, Naoum ^a,b   Bidikoudi, Maria ^a   Stergiopoulos, Thomas ^a   Likodimos, Vlassis ^a   Kontos, Athanassios G ^a   Falaras, Polycarpos ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crystallites; Dye sensitized solar cells; Electrochemical anodization; Electron transport; Grain boundaries; Titanium dioxide nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ANODIC OXIDATION; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; CRYSTALLITES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; NANOTUBES; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; YARN; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS;

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; EFFECT OF ANNEALING; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ANODIZATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; OXIDATION CONDITIONS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOTUBES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; NANOTUBES;

EID: 84882883553     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.02.017     Document Type: Article

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