Significant enhancement of power conversion efficiency for dye sensitized solar cell using 1D/3D network nanostructures as photoanodes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Hao ^a   Wang, Baoyuan ^a   Yu, Jichao ^a   Hu, Yunxia ^a   Xia, Chen ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Liu, Rong ^a  

^a HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84925358667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09305     Document Type: Article

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