Monolithic coal-based carbon counter electrodes for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Carbon

Volumn 67, Issue , 2014, Pages 465-474

  Wang, Chunlei ^a   Meng, Fanning ^a   Wang, Tonghua ^a   Ma, Tingli ^a   Qiu, Jieshan ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITUMINOUS COAL; COAL; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOCOMPOSITES; POROUS MATERIALS; POROUS PLATES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS; TIN OXIDES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CARBON COUNTER ELECTRODES; HIGH ENERGY CONVERSIONS; INTERNAL RESISTANCE; MESOPOROUS CARBON; PLATINIZED FLUORINE-DOPED TIN OXIDE; POROUS CARBON PLATE; POROUS SUBSTRATES; X-RAY PHOTOELECTRONS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84892786023     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.10.019     Document Type: Article

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