Ordered Mesoporous Particles in Titania Films with Hierarchical Structure as Scattering Layers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 39, 2015, Pages 22552-22559

  Xiong, Yuli ^a   He, Daping ^b   Jin, Yun ^a   Cameron, Petra J ^a   Edler, Karen J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYES; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PORE SIZE; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HIGH SURFACE AREA; MESOPOROUS TITANIA; OPTIMUM COMPOSITION; ORDERED MESOPOROUS; SCATTERING EFFECTS; SCATTERING PARTICLES; TITANIA NANO-PARTICLES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84942781749     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b06977     Document Type: Article

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