Graphene-Porphyrin Nanorod Composites for Solar Light Harvesting

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1562-1568

  Bera, Rajesh ^a   Mandal, Sadananda ^a   Mondal, Bodhisatwa ^a   Jana, Bikash ^a   Nayak, Sandip K ^b   Patra, Amitava ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

^b BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Composite; Graphene; Photocurrent; Porphyrin nanorod; Ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONS; ENERGY CONVERSION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; LIGHT; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRON TRANSFER PROCESS; FEMTOSECOND FLUORESCENCE UP-CONVERSION SPECTROSCOPIES; ONE DIMENSIONAL (1D) NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE SEPARATION; PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON-TRANSFER PROCESS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING; ULTRA-FAST SPECTROSCOPIES;

PORPHYRINS;

EID: 84960194121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b01504     Document Type: Article

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