Double-sided brush-shaped TiO2 nanostructure assemblies with highly ordered nanowires for dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 122-129

  Zha, Chenyang ^a   Shen, Liming ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a   Wang, Yifeng ^a   Korgel, Brian A ^b   Gupta, Arunava ^c   Bao, Ningzhong ^a  

^a NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; hydrothermal synthesis; nanostructure; nanowire arrays; TiO2

Indexed keywords

CARRIER RECOMBINATION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; HYDROTHERMAL REACTION; INTERNAL SURFACE AREA; NANOWIRE ARRAYS; OPEN CIRCUIT POTENTIAL; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TIO;

BRUSHES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84892389803     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am404942n     Document Type: Article

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