Current Doubling effect revisited: Current multiplication in a PhotoFuelCell

Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 751, Issue , 2015, Pages 37-42

  Kalamaras, Evangelos ^a   Lianos, Panagiotis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Current Doubling effect; PhotoFuelCells

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ETHANOL; PHOTOCATALYSTS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SUGAR SUBSTITUTES;

CURRENT FLOWING; CURRENT INCREASE; CURRENT MULTIPLICATION; ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; NANOSTRUCTURED SEMICONDUCTOR; PHOTOCURRENT EFFICIENCY; PHOTOFUELCELLS; SACRIFICIAL AGENTS;

ETHANOL FUELS;

EID: 84930959991     PISSN: 15726657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2015.05.029     Document Type: Article

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