Graphene below the percolation threshold in TiO2 for dye-sensitized solar cells

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2580-2588

  Dembele, Kadiatou Therese ^a   Selopal, Gurpreet Singh ^b,c   Milan, Riccardo ^b,c   Trudeau, Charles ^d   Benetti, Daniele ^a   Soudi, Afsoon ^a   Natile, Marta Maria ^e,f   Sberveglieri, Giorgio ^b,c   Cloutier, Sylvain ^d   Concina, Isabella ^b,c   Rosei, Federico ^a   Vomiero, Alberto ^c,g  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^d ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^g LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; GRAPHENE; PERCOLATION (COMPUTER STORAGE); PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); SCALABILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLVENTS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; INTERCONNECTED NETWORK; NANO PARTICULATES; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; PHOTO-ANODES; PHOTOCONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84921286955     PISSN: 20507488     EISSN: 20507496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ta04395b     Document Type: Article

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