From nanocorals to nanorods to nanoflowers nanoarchitecture for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells at relatively low film thickness: All Hydrothermal Process

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mali, Sawanta S ^a,c   Betty, Chirayath A ^b   Bhosale, Popatrao N ^a   Patil, Pramod S ^a   Hong, Chang Kook ^c  

^a SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

^c Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84903647737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05451     Document Type: Article

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