High performance of NiCo nanoparticles-doped carbon nanofibers as counter electrode for dye-sensitized solar cells

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 160, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-6

  Motlak, Moaaed ^a,b   Barakat, Nasser A M ^a,c   Akhtar, M Shaheer ^a   Hamza, A M ^d   Kim, Byoung Suhk ^a   Kim, Cheol Sang ^a   Khalil, Khalil Abdelrazek ^e,f   Almajid, Abdulhakim A ^f  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANBAR   (Iraq)

^c Minia University   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iraq)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f ASWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Conversion Efficiency; counter electrode; DSSCs; electrospinning; NiCo carbon nanofibers

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOFIBERS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROSPINNING; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOFIBERS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORGANOMETALLICS; PLATINUM; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

CATALYTIC ACTIVE SITES; COUNTER ELECTRODE MATERIALS; COUNTER ELECTRODES; DSSCS; ELECTROSPUN NANOFIBERS; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84922879705     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.02.063     Document Type: Article

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