High performance polyvinyl alcohol/multi walled carbon nanotube/polyaniline hydrogel (PVA/MWCNT/PAni) based dye sensitized solar cells

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 146, Issue , 2014, Pages 106-111

  Nath, Bikash Chandra ^a   Gogoi, Biswajit ^a   Boruah, Monalisha ^a   Sharma, Shyamalima ^a   Khannam, Momina ^a   Ahmed, Gazi Ameen ^a   Dolui, Swapan Kumar ^a  

^a TEZPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Dye sensitized solar cell; Efficiency; Hydrogel; MWCNT

Indexed keywords

HYDROGELS;

DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; MWCNT;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84908500289     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.08.134     Document Type: Article

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