One-Step Hydrothermal Tailoring of NiCo2S4 Nanostructures on Conducting Oxide Substrates as an Efficient Counter Electrode in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Advanced Materials Interfaces

Volumn 2, Issue 18, 2015, Pages

  Khoo, Si Yun ^a,b   Miao, Jianwei ^a   Yang, Hong Bin ^a   He, Ziming ^a   Leong, Kam Chew ^b   Liu, Bin ^a   Tan, Timothy Thatt Yang ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b GLOBALFOUNDRIES SINGAPORE PTE LTD   (Singapore)

Author keywords

counter electrodes; dye sensitized solar cells; electrocatalytic activities; nanostructures; NiCo2S4

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; ELECTRODES; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSHEETS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; TIN OXIDES;

COUNTER ELECTRODES; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCATALYTIC PERFORMANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; NICO2S4; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; TERNARY CHALCOGENIDES;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84955173305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21967350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/admi.201500384     Document Type: Article

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