• Frontiers of Optoelectronics
  • Vol. 4, Issue 1, 53 (2011)
Jianwei LIU1、2 and Jun LI2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
  • 2Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-3701, USA
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    DOI: 10.1007/s12200-011-0154-9 Cite this Article
    Jianwei LIU, Jun LI. Electrochemical analysis of dye adsorption on aligned carbon nanofiber arrays coated with TiO2 nanoneedles for dye-sensitized solar cell[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2011, 4(1): 53 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Jianwei LIU, Jun LI. Electrochemical analysis of dye adsorption on aligned carbon nanofiber arrays coated with TiO2 nanoneedles for dye-sensitized solar cell[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2011, 4(1): 53
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