Hybrid wiring of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center for applications in bio-photoelectrochemical solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 41, 2014, Pages 23509-23518

  Yaghoubi, Houman ^a,b   Li, Zhi ^a   Jun, Daniel ^c   Lafalce, Evan ^b   Jiang, Xiaomei ^b   Schlaf, Rudy ^a   Beatty, J Thomas ^c   Takshi, Arash ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DEPOSITION; GOLD; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR ENERGY; SYNTHETIC FUELS;

CATHODIC PHOTOCURRENT; DOCKING MECHANISMS; ELECTROCHEMICAL STUDIES; IMMOBILIZATION METHOD; LAYER BY LAYER DEPOSITION; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL SOLAR CELL; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84949115488     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp507065u     Document Type: Article

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