Mesoporous TiO 2 Bragg Stack Templated by Graft Copolymer for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Park, Jung Tae ^a,b   Chi, Won Seok ^a   Kim, Sang Jin ^a   Lee, Daeyeon ^b   Kim, Jong Hak ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84903709901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05505     Document Type: Article

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