Insights into meso-structured photoanodes based on titanium oxide thin film with high dye adsorption ability

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Volumn 609, Issue , 2014, Pages 116-124

  Di Carlo, Gabriella ^a   Calogero, Giuseppe ^b   Brucale, Marco ^a   Caschera, Daniela ^a   De Caro, Tilde ^a   Di Marco, Gaetano ^b   Ingo, Gabriel M ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Morphological properties; N719 dye adsorption; Ordered mesoporous materials; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; METALLIC FILMS; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; N719 DYE; ORDERED MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY DIFFRACTIONS; STRUCTURAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; TITANIUM OXIDE THIN FILMS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84900840681     PISSN: 09258388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.04.145     Document Type: Article

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