Hyperbranched quasi-1d nanostructures for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 10023-10031

  Passoni, Luca ^a,b   Ghods, Farbod ^a   Docampo, Pablo ^c   Abrusci, Agnese ^c   Martí Rujas, Javier ^a   Ghidelli, Matteo ^a   Divitini, Giorgio ^d   Ducati, Caterina ^d   Binda, Maddalena ^a   Guarnera, Simone ^a   Li Bassi, Andrea ^a,b   Casari, Carlo Spartaco ^a,b   Snaith, Henry J ^c   Petrozza, Annamaria ^a   Di Fonzo, Fabio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; hierarchical nanostructures; hyperbranched; pulsed laser deposition; self assembled

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; HIERARCHICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; HIGH SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; HYPERBRANCHED; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ORIENTED CRYSTALLIZATION; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

ASPECT RATIO; OPTIMIZATION; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84888870162     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403979h     Document Type: Article

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