Synthesis of highly effective vanadium nitride (VN) peas as a counter electrode catalyst in dye-sensitized solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 12625-12631

  Wu, Mingxing ^a   Guo, Hongyue ^a   Lin, Ya Nan ^a   Wu, Kezhong ^a   Ma, Tingli ^b   Hagfeldt, Anders ^c  

^a HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYST REGENERATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRODES; GEOMETRY; NITRIDES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PLATINUM; UREA;

COUNTER ELECTRODES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; IODIDE/TRI-IODIDE; ORGANIC REDOX COUPLES; PARTICLE SHAPE; TAFEL POLARIZATION CURVES; VANADIUM NITRIDES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84903144208     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp501797e     Document Type: Article

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