Electrochemical self-assembly of nanostructured CuSCN/rhodamine B hybrid thin film and its dye-sensitized photocathodic properties

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 16581-16590

  Iwamoto, Takuya ^a   Ogawa, Yuta ^b   Sun, Lina ^b,c   White, Matthew Schuette ^d   Glowacki, Eric Daniel ^d   Scharber, Markus Clark ^d   Sariciftci, Niyazi Serdar ^d   Manseki, Kazuhiro ^a   Sugiura, Takashi ^a   Yoshida, Tsukasa ^b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COPPER; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; DYES; NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLAR CELLS; THIN FILMS;

CATHODIC ELECTROLYSIS; CONTROL PARAMETERS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ETHANOL/WATER MIXTURES; NANOSTRUCTURED HYBRIDS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; QUENCHING OF FLUORESCENCE;

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EID: 84905457627     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp412463v     Document Type: Article

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