Enhancement of p-type dye-sensitized solar cell performance by supramolecular assembly of electron donor and acceptor

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tian, Haining ^a,b   Oscarsson, Johan ^b   Gabrielsson, Erik ^a   Eriksson, Susanna K ^b   Lindblad, Rebecka ^b   Xu, Bo ^a   Hao, Yan ^b,c   Boschloo, Gerrit ^b   Johansson, Erik M J ^b   Gardner, James M ^a   Hagfeldt, Anders ^b   Rensmo, Håkan ^b   Sun, Licheng ^a,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84896800497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04282     Document Type: Article

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