Versatile three-dimensional virus-based template for dye-sensitized solar cells with improved electron transport and light harvesting

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 6563-6574

  Chen, Po Yen ^a,b   Dang, Xiangnan ^a,b   Klug, Matthew T ^a,b   Qi, Jifa ^a,b   Dorval Courchesne, Noémie Manuelle ^a,b   Burpo, Fred J ^a   Fang, Nicholas ^a   Hammond, Paula T ^a,b   Belcher, Angela M ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

biotemplate; dye sensitized solar cells; electron transport; light harvesting; localized surface plasmon resonance; M13 bacteriophage; three dimensional network

Indexed keywords

BIOTEMPLATE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT-HARVESTING; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; M13 BACTERIOPHAGE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORKS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HARVESTING; MORPHOLOGY; NANOWIRES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PLASMONS; PROTEINS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SOLAR CELLS;

COLORING AGENT; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOWIRE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE M13; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS; VIRUS CAPSID; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE M13;

BACTERIOPHAGE M13; CAPSID; COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; LIGHT; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOWIRES; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TITANIUM; VIRUSES; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84883257550     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4014164     Document Type: Article

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