Light harvesting with Earth abundant d-block metals: Development of sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs)

Coordination Chemistry Reviews

Volumn 257, Issue 21-22, 2013, Pages 3089-3106

  Bozic Weber, Biljana ^a   Constable, Edwin C ^a   Housecroft, Catherine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Metal complex; Redox mediator; Sensitizer; Solar energy conversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884267989     PISSN: 00108545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2013.05.019     Document Type: Review

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