High-Performance and Stable Gel-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Anodic TiO2 Nanotube Arrays and Polymer-Based Gel Electrolytes

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 12731-12739

  Seidalilir, Zahra ^a   Malekfar, Rasoul ^a   Wu, Hui Ping ^b   Shiu, Jia Wei ^b   Diau, Eric Wei Guang ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

anodization; DSSC; PMMA EA; polymer gel electrolyte; TiO2 nanotubes

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ESTERS; NANOTUBES; POLYELECTROLYTES; POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; SOLID ELECTROLYTES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANODIZATIONS; DSSC; PMMA-EA; POLYMER GEL ELECTROLYTES; TIO2 NANOTUBES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84935024451     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01519     Document Type: Article

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