Green grasses as light harvesters in dye sensitized solar cells

Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

Volumn 135, Issue , 2015, Pages 947-952

  Shanmugam, Vinoth ^a   Manoharan, Subbaiah ^b   Sharafali, A ^a   Anandan, Sambandam ^b   Murugan, Ramaswamy ^a  

^a PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cells; Grass extract; Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry; Natural dyes; Pheophytin a

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HARVESTERS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOLAR CELLS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; GRASS EXTRACT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; NATURAL DYE; PHEOPHYTIN A;

PLANT EXTRACTS;

COLORING AGENT; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRODE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POACEAE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ABSORPTION, PHYSICOCHEMICAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; COLORING AGENTS; DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODES; LIGHT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POACEAE; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TITANIUM;

EID: 84907344026     PISSN: 13861425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2014.07.096     Document Type: Article

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