Highly functional titania nanoparticles produced by flame spray pyrolysis. Photoelectrochemical and solar cell applications

Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Volumn 182, Issue , 2016, Pages 369-374

  Tantis, Iosif ^a   Dozzi, Maria Vittoria ^b   Bettini, Luca Giacomo ^b   Chiarello, Gian Luca ^b   Dracopoulos, Vassilios ^c   Selli, Elena ^b   Lianos, Panagiotis ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Flame spray pyrolysis; Photoelectrochemical cells; Titania

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FLAME SPRAYING; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SOLAR CELLS; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; SPRAY GUNS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANO PARTICULATES; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; PHOTOELECTROCATALYTIC; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICALS; QUANTUM DOT-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR-CELL APPLICATIONS; TITANIA; TITANIA NANO-PARTICLES;

SPRAY PYROLYSIS;

EID: 84943597699     PISSN: 09263373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2015.09.040     Document Type: Article

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