A facile way to fabricate graphene sheets on TiO2nanotube arrays for dye-sensitized solar cell applications

Journal of Materials Science

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 7991-7999

  Wang, Yang ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Tian, Yunfeng ^a   Zhao, Wen ^a   Liu, Xueqin ^a   Yang, Jianbo ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; GRAPHENE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS; ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LARGE-AREA GRAPHENE; MICROSTRUCTURES AND PROPERTIES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SPECIAL STRUCTURE;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84907168750     PISSN: 00222461     EISSN: 15734803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-014-8506-7     Document Type: Article

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