Demonstration of ultrarapid interfacial formation of 1D fullerene nanorods with photovoltaic properties

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 15597-15603

  Shrestha, Rekha Goswami ^a   Shrestha, Lok Kumar ^a   Khan, Ali Hossain ^b   Kumar, Gundam Sandeep ^b   Acharya, Somobrata ^b   Ariga, Katsuhiko ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

fullerene single crystal nanorods; liquid liquid interfacial precipitation; photoluminescence; photovoltaic properties; ultrarapid crystal formation

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FULLERENES; NANORODS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CRYSTAL FORMATION; LIQUID-LIQUID INTERFACIAL PRECIPITATION; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE CARRIERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; ROOM TEMPERATURE SYNTHESIS; SINGLE-CRYSTAL NANORODS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 84907842246     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5046235     Document Type: Article

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