Tuning the driving force for exciton dissociation in single-walled carbon nanotube heterojunctions

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 603-609

  Ihly, Rachelle ^a   Mistry, Kevin S ^a,b   Ferguson, Andrew J ^a   Clikeman, Tyler T ^a,c   Larson, Bryon W ^a,c   Reid, Obadiah ^a,b   Boltalina, Olga V ^c   Strauss, Steven H ^c   Rumbles, Garry ^a,b,c   Blackburn, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

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EID: 84971261614     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2496     Document Type: Article

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