Carbon nanohorns as integrative materials for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Advanced Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 45, 2013, Pages 6513-6518

  Costa, Rubén D ^a   Feihl, Sebastian ^a   Kahnt, Axel ^a   Gambhir, Sanjeev ^b   Officer, David L ^b   Wallace, Gordon G ^b   Lucio, María Isabel ^c   Herrero, María Antonia ^c   Vázquez, Ester ^c   Syrgiannis, Zois ^d   Prato, Maurizio ^d   Guldi, Dirk M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

carbon materials; dye sensitized solar cells; nanocarbon TiO2 composites; single wall carbon nanohorns

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOHORN; CARBON-MATERIALS; DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; DOPED-TIO; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; NANO-CARBON; NANOCARBONS; SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOHORN;

ELECTRODES; NANOHORNS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; COLORING AGENT; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBON-MATERIALS; CHEMISTRY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRODE; NANOCARBON/TIO2 COMPOSITES; POROSITY; POWER SUPPLY; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOHORNS; SOLAR ENERGY;

CARBON-MATERIALS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; NANOCARBON/TIO2 COMPOSITES; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOHORNS;

COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRODES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POROSITY; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM;

EID: 84889634199     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201301527     Document Type: Article

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