Supramolecular ionic liquid gels for quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8723-8728

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Yuan, Chao ^a   Guo, Jiangna ^a   Qiu, Lihua ^a   Yan, Feng ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; host guest; ionic liquid; supramolecular gel; cyclodextrin

Indexed keywords

CYCLODEXTRINS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; HOST GUEST INTERACTIONS; HOST-GUESTS; LONG TERM STABILITY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; QUASI-SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ROOM TEMPERATURE IONIC LIQUIDS; TRIFLUOROMETHYL;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 84902507339     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501523x     Document Type: Article

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