Kinetics of the regeneration by iodide of dye sensitizers adsorbed on mesoporous Titania

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 17108-17115

  Teuscher, Joël ^a   Marchioro, Arianna ^a   Andrès, Julien ^a   Roch, Loïc M ^a   Xu, Mingfei ^b   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^a   Wang, Peng ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^a   Moser, Jacques E ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTES; KINETICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; RATE CONSTANTS; RUTHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS;

ASSOCIATIVE INTERACTIONS; CHARGE RECOMBINATION PROCESS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTROLYTE CONCENTRATION; LOW ELECTROLYTE CONCENTRATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; SECOND-ORDER RATE CONSTANTS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84905455139     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp501481c     Document Type: Article

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