A Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Coated Flexible PVC Counter Electrode for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Advanced Materials Interfaces

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Hashmi, Syed Ghufran ^a   Halme, Janne ^a   Ma, Ying ^a,b   Saukkonen, Tapio ^a   Lund, Peter ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

dye sensitized solar cells; metal free counter electrode; PEDOT; single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT)

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DURABILITY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRODES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TEMPERATURE; YARN;

CHARGE TRANSFER RESISTANCE; COUNTER ELECTRODES; FLEXIBLE PVC; LOW TEMPERATURES; MECHANICAL DURABILITY; PEDOT; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SINGLEWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNT);

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84907363655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21967350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/admi.201300055     Document Type: Article

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