Kinetics of Iodine-Free Redox Shuttles in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Interfacial Recombination and Dye Regeneration

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1541-1550

  Sun, Zhe ^a,b   Liang, Mao ^a,b   Chen, Jun ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84934931914     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar500337g     Document Type: Article

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