Highly efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells based on nanographite/polypyrrole counter electrode

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 129, Issue , 2014, Pages 229-236

  Yue, Gentian ^a   Zhang, Xin'An ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Tan, Furui ^a   Wu, Jihuai ^b   Jiang, Qiwei ^a   Lin, Jianming ^b   Huang, Miaoliang ^b   Lan, Zhang ^b  

^a HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAQIAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Counter electrode; Dye sensitized solar cell; Nanographite; Photoelectric properties; Polypyrrole

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; COUNTER ELECTRODES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; NANO-GRAPHITE; PHOTOELECTRIC PROPERTY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

COMPOSITE FILMS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOCOMPOSITES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; POLYPYRROLES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR CELLS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84897869418     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.02.109     Document Type: Article

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