Enhanced Charge Separation and FRET at Heterojunctions between Semiconductor Nanoparticles and Conducting Polymer Nanofibers for Efficient Solar Light Harvesting

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sardar, Samim ^a   Kar, Prasenjit ^a   Remita, Hynd ^b,c   Liu, Bo ^d   Lemmens, Peter ^d   Pal, Samir Kumar ^a   Ghosh, Srabanti ^a  

^a S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYNE; NANOFIBER; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; ZINC OXIDE;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; POWER SUPPLY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLAR ENERGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALKYNES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; NANOFIBERS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SOLAR ENERGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84948446021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep17313     Document Type: Article

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