Acetonitrile solution effect on Ru N749 dye adsorption and excitation at TiO2 anatase interface

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 16863-16871

  Tateyama, Yoshitaka ^a,b,c   Sumita, Masato ^a   Ootani, Yusuke ^a   Aikawa, Koharu ^a,d   Jono, Ryota ^e   Han, Liyuan ^a,b   Sodeyama, Keitaro ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; ADSORPTION; CARBOXYLATION; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RADIATION; SOLAR CELLS;

ACETONITRILE SOLUTIONS; ADSORBED MOLECULES; BETTER PERFORMANCE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRODE INTERFACE; EXPLICIT SOLVENTS; PHOTOABSORPTION SPECTRA; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 84905460123     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5004006     Document Type: Article

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