Facile fabrication of sub-100 nm mesoscale inverse opal films and their application in dye-sensitized solar cell electrodes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lee, Jung Woo ^a   Lee, Jaemin ^a   Kim, Cheolho ^a   Cho, Chang Yeol ^a   Moon, Jun Hyuk ^a  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84946089705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06804     Document Type: Article

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