Surfactant free most probable TiO2 nanostructures via hydrothermal and its dye sensitized solar cell properties

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mali, Sawanta S ^a   Kim, Hyungjin ^a   Shim, Chang Su ^a   Patil, Pramod S ^a,b   Kim, Jin Hyeok ^a   Hong, Chang Kook ^a  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 84886258293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03004     Document Type: Article

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