Enhanced charge transport kinetics in anisotropic, stratified photoanodes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1389-1393

  Yazdani, Nuri ^a   Bozyigit, Deniz ^a   Utke, Ivo ^b   Buchheim, Jakob ^a   Youn, Seul Ki ^a   Patscheider, Jörg ^b   Wood, Vanessa ^a   Park, Hyung Gyu ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs); electron kinetics; photoanode

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894222048     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am405987t     Document Type: Article

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