Highly flexible dye-sensitized solar cells produced by sewing textile electrodes on cloth

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yun, Min Ju ^a   Cha, Seung I ^a   Seo, Seon Hee ^a   Lee, Dong Y ^a  

^a Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI)   (South Korea)

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EID: 84903217434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05322     Document Type: Article

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