Iron pyrite, a potential photovoltaic material, increases plant biomass upon seed pretreatment

Materials Express

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-31

  Srivastava, Gaurav ^a   Das, Anubhav ^a   Kusurkar, Tejas Sanjeev ^a   Roy, Manas ^a   Airan, Saket ^a   Sharma, Raj Kishore ^b   Singh, Sushil Kumar ^c   Sarkar, Sabyasachi ^d   Das, Mainak ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c SOLID STATE PHYSICS LABORATORY   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Biomass; Chick pea; Iron pyrite; Legume; Photo Voltaic; Seed pre treatment; Sulfur

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892775594     PISSN: 21585849     EISSN: 21585857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/mex.2014.1139     Document Type: Article

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