Broadband light harvesting and fast charge separation in ordered self-assemblies of electron donor-acceptor-functionalized graphene oxide layers for effective solar energy conversion

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 13488-13495

  Supur, Mustafa ^a   Kawashima, Yuki ^a   Mase, Kentaro ^a   Ohkubo, Kei ^a,d   Hasobe, Taku ^b   Fukuzumi, Shunichi ^a,c,d  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; INFRARED DEVICES; MOLECULES; OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEPARATION; SOLAR ENERGY; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ABSORPTION DISTRIBUTION; CHARGE SEPARATION PROCESS; DECAY CHARACTERISTICS; DIRECT INTERACTIONS; ELECTRON DONOR ACCEPTORS; FUNCTIONALIZED GRAPHENE; NEAR INFRARED REGION; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84934976710     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b03303     Document Type: Article

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