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(N-Methylthiocarbamoyl)tetrathiafulvalene derivatives and their radical cations: synthetic and X-ray structural studies

A Quarterthiophene-Based Dye as an Efficient Interface Modifier for Hybrid Titanium Dioxide/Poly(3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT) Solar Cells

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

A comparison of potential molecular wires as components for molecular electronics

scientific article

A new class of macrocycle capable of binding exogenous metals: synthesis, structure, magnetic and electrochemical properties of a Cu(II) trinuclear complex based upon 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane-2,3-dione [exoO2]cyclam †

A new dithiolene complex magnet: [Ni(Cp*Rubdt) 2 ][CF 3 SO 3 ]

A nickel-complex sensitiser for dye-sensitised solar cells

scholarly article by Charlotte L. Linfoot et al published June 2011 in Solar Energy

A novel route to 4,4′-disubstituted bipyridyl ligands in ruthenium complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells

A stable near IR switchable electrochromic polymer based on an indole-substituted nickel dithiolene

scientific article published on 9 September 2009

A unique new multiband molecular conductor: [BDTA][Ni(dmit)2]2

scientific article published on 24 May 2005

Adsorption and redox chemistry of cis-RuLL'(SCN)2 with L=4,4′-dicarboxylic acid-2,2′-bipyridine and L'=4,4′-dinonyl-2,2′-bipyridine (Z907) at FTO and TiO2 electrode surfaces

An Organic “Donor-Free” Dye with Enhanced Open-Circuit Voltage in Solid-State Sensitized Solar Cells

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Analysis of the Thermal Degradation of the Individual Anthocyanin Compounds of Black Carrot (Daucus carota L.): A New Approach Using High-Resolution Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Atypical organic dyes used as sensitizers for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

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BiVO4-TiO2Composite Photocatalysts for Dye Degradation Formed Using the SILAR Method

scientific article published on 29 July 2016

Binuclear and trinuclear complexes of exoO2-cyclam

scientific article published on 10 May 2007

Bismuth titanate modified and immobilized TiO2 photocatalysts for water purification: broad pollutant scope, ease of re-use and mechanistic studies

scientific article published in 2018

Building Comprehensive Networks to Address the Sustainable Energy Challenge with Focus on Rural India

Catching the Rainbow: Light Harvesting in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Characterisation of a ruthenium bipyridyl dye showing a long-lived charge-separated state on TiO2 in the presence of I−/I3−

scientific article published on 18 March 2010

Characterization and reduction of reabsorption losses in luminescent solar concentrators

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Combined magnetic and single-crystal X-ray structural study of the linear chain antiferromagnet [(CH3)4N][MnCl3] under varying pressure

scientific article published in July 2006

Contributions of inorganic chemistry to energy research

scientific article published on 22 March 2011

Control of copper(II) coordination geometry via supramolecular assembly of ligands in the solid state

article published in 1999

Conversion of tetrahedral to octahedral structures upon solvent coordination: studies on the M[(OPPh2)(SePPh2)N]2(M = Co, Ni) and [Ni{(OPPh2)(EPPh2)N}2(dmf)2] (E = S, Se) complexes

scientific article published on 12 November 2010

Correction: Polymeric hole-transport materials with side-chain redox-active groups for perovskite solar cells with good reproducibility

scientific article published in 2018

Crown ether lanthanide complexes as building blocks for luminescent ternary complexes

Crystal structure of (chloromethyl)trimethylammonium tetrafluoroborate, (ClCH2)(CH3)3NBF4

Crystal structure of 4-methoxycarbonyl-1,3-dithiole-2-thione, C5H4O2S3

CuIversus RuII: Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells and Beyond

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

D-A-π-A Motif Quinoxaline-Based Sensitizers with High Molar Extinction Coefficient for Quasi-Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

scientific article published on 31 October 2016

Design of Os(II) -based sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells: influence of heterocyclic ancillaries

scientific article

Diacetylene bridged triphenylamines as hole transport materials for solid state dye sensitized solar cells

Dinuclear Ru-Cu Complexes: Electronic Characterisation and Application to Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells

Directly probing spin dynamics in a molecular magnet with femtosecond time-resolution.

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Directly-linked intramolecular donor–acceptor compounds of ferrocene and tetracyanoanthraquinodimethane

Diverse magnetic and electrical properties of molecular solids containing the thiazyl radical BDTA

Dye sensitized solar cells with cobalt and iodine-based electrolyte: the role of thiocyanate-free ruthenium sensitizers

scholarly article by Kuan-Lin Wu et al published 2014 in Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Dye-sensitized solar cells: Investigation of D-A-π-A organic sensitizers based on [1,2,5]selenadiazolo[3,4- c ]pyridine

Effect of alkyl chain length on the properties of triphenylamine-based hole transport materials and their performance in perovskite solar cells

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Effect of an auxiliary acceptor on D–A–π–A sensitizers for highly efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells

article published in 2016

Effect of extending conjugation via thiophene-based oligomers on the excited state electron transfer rates to ZnO nanocrystals

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Effect of torsional twist on 2nd order non-linear optical activity of anthracene and pyrene tricyanofuran derivatives

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

Efficient Pt(ii) emitters assembled from neutral bipyridine and dianionic bipyrazolate: designs, photophysical characterization and the fabrication of non-doped OLEDs

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Electrochemical deposition as a unique solution processing method for insoluble organic optoelectronic materials

Electrochemical deposition of a semiconducting gold dithiolene complex with NIR absorption

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Electrochemical deposition of highly-conducting metal dithiolene films.

scientific article

Electrochromic Thin Films of the V-Cr Prussian Blue Analogue Molecular Magnet

Electrochromic bilayers of Prussian blue and its Cr analogue

Electrochromic second-order NLO chromophores based on MII (M = Ni, Pd, Pt) complexes with diselenolato–dithione (donor–acceptor) ligands

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Electrodeposition as a superior route to a thin film molecular semiconductor

Electron-donating strength dependent symmetry breaking charge transfer dynamics of quadrupolar molecules

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Electropolymerisable dithiolene complexes

Enhancement of hole mobility in hybrid titanium dioxide/poly(3-hexylthiophene) nanocomposites by employing an oligothiophene dye as an interface modifier

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Ethynyl thiophene-appended unsymmetrical zinc porphyrin sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

scholarly article in RSC Advances, vol. 4 no. 27, 2014

Europium complexes with high total photoluminescence quantum yields in solution and in PMMA

scientific article published on 25 September 2009

Extending lead-free hybrid photovoltaic materials to new structures: thiazolium, aminothiazolium and imidazolium iodobismuthates

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Facile hydrothermal synthesis of economically viable VO 2 (M1) counter electrode for dye sensitized solar cells

First charge-transfer complexes between tetrathiafulvalene and 1,2,5-chalcogenadiazole derivatives: Design, synthesis, crystal structures, electronic and electrical properties

Fluorination induced electronic effects on a Pt(ii) square-planar complex of the o-phenylenediimine ligand

Formation of iridium fluoroacyl complexes by reaction of iridium carbonyls with XeF2 and reactions of these to generate unusual acyl complexes

scholarly article by E. A. V. Ebsworth et al published 1993 in Dalton transactions RSC

Formation of stable neutral copper bis-dithiolene thin films by potentiostatic electrodeposition

scientific article published on 27 May 2011

Geometrical Isomerism of RuIIDye-Sensitized Solar Cell Sensitizers and Effects on Photophysical Properties and Device Performances

scientific article published on 13 February 2014

Giant Magnetoresistance in a Molecular Thin Film as an Intrinsic Property

Giant negative magnetoresistance in Ni(quinoline-8-selenoate)2.

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

High Absorption Coefficient Cyclopentadithiophene Donor-Free Dyes for Liquid and Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

High Second-Order NLO Response Exhibited by the First Example of Polymeric Film Incorporating a Diimine–Dithiolate Square-Planar Complex: The [Ni(o-phen)(bdt)]

High-Performance Porphyrin-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Iodine and Cobalt Redox Shuttles

scientific article published on 5 December 2016

Hole-transport materials with greatly-differing redox potentials give efficient TiO2–[CH3NH3][PbX3] perovskite solar cells

scientific article published on 11 December 2014

Impact of Skeletal Isomerization of Ultrasmall Gold Clusters on Electrochemical Properties: Voltammetric Profiles of Nonspoked Octanuclear Clusters

Improving Carbon-Coated TiO2 Films with a TiCl4 Treatment for Photocatalytic Water Purification

scholarly article by Gylen Odling et al published 21 September 2017 in ChemCatChem

In-situ microfluidic controlled, low temperature hydrothermal growth of nanoflakes for dye-sensitized solar cells

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Influence of the R-substituents on the properties of [Ni(R2pipdt)(dmit)] complexes and crystal structure where R = CH2C6H5

scientific article published on 04 October 2007

Insight into quinoxaline containing D–π–A dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells with cobalt and iodine based electrolytes: the effect of π-bridge on the HOMO energy level and photovoltaic performance

scholarly article by Xing Li et al published 2015 in Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Interdye Hole Transport Accelerates Recombination in Dye Sensitized Mesoporous Films

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

Intermolecular interactions in the molecular ferromagnetic NH4Ni(mnt)2· H2O

scientific article published in Nature

Investigating magnetostructural correlations in the pseudooctahedral trans-[Ni(II){(OPPh2)(EPPh2)N}2(sol)2] complexes (E = S, Se; sol = DMF, THF) by magnetometry, HFEPR, and ab initio quantum chemistry

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Investigation of a copper(i) biquinoline complex for application in dye-sensitized solar cells

scholarly article in RSC Advances, vol. 3 no. 45, 2013

Isolation and characterisation of a new monodithiolate gold(III) complex

Isomer Dependence of Efficiency and Charge Recombination in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Ru Complex Dyes Bearing Halogen Substituents

article published in 2015

Lead-free pseudo-three-dimensional organic–inorganic iodobismuthates for photovoltaic applications

Low temperature growth of hybrid ZnO/TiO2 nano-sculptured foxtail-structures for dye-sensitized solar cells

scholarly article in RSC Advances, vol. 4 no. 105, 2014

Luminescent Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Encapsulation Layers for Enhancing the Short Wavelength Spectral Response and Efficiency of Silicon Photovoltaic Modules

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Luminescent Polymer Films from Simple Processing of Coronene and Europium Precursors in Water

Materials for near-IR light modulation

Metal bis-1,2-dithiolene complexes in conducting or magnetic crystalline assemblies

Metal complexes of a tetrathiafulvalene 4,5-dithiolate. Synthesis, characterisation and properties of dianionic and neutral mercury complexes

article published in 1996

Molecular Complexes of Extended Sulphur Donor Ligands

article published in 1996

Molecular Engineering of Potent Sensitizers for Very Efficient Light Harvesting in Thin-Film Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

scientific article

Molecular Self-Assembly on Surfaces of Organic Conducting Salts: Epitaxial Monolayer Films of Naphthalene on the (001) Surface of (TMTSF)2PF6

article published in 2000

Molecular and thin film properties of cobalt half-sandwich compounds for optoelectronic application

scientific article published on 20 February 2017

Monothiatruxene-Based, Solution-Processed Green, Sky-Blue, and Deep-Blue Organic Light-Emitting Diodes with Efficiencies Beyond 5% Limit

article by Michal R. Maciejczyk et al published 17 December 2018 in Advanced Functional Materials

Monothiatruxene: a new versatile core for functional materials

scholarly article in RSC Advances, vol. 7 no. 78, 2017

Naphthyl Derivatives Functionalised with Electron Acceptor Units - Synthesis, Electronic Characterisation and DFT Calculations

Neutral copper(I) dipyrrin complexes and their use as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells

scientific article published in March 2014

New indole trimers as precursors for molecular electronic materials

Nickel dithiolenes containing pendant thiophene units: precursors to dithiolene–polythiophene hybrid materials

scholarly article by Tania Anjos et al published 2008 in Journal of Materials Chemistry

Noncovalent interactions under extreme conditions: high-pressure and low-temperature diffraction studies of the isostructural metal-organic networks (4-chloropyridinium)2[CoX4] (X = Cl, Br).

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Nonlinear-Optical Properties of α-Diiminedithiolatonickel(II) Complexes Enhanced by Electron-Withdrawing Carboxyl Groups

scientific article published on 24 April 2014

Novel ruthenium bipyridyl dyes with S-donor ligands and their application in dye-sensitized solar cells

Oligothiophene interlayer effect on photocurrent generation for hybrid TiO(2)/P3HT solar cells

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Optimizing Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

scientific article published on 01 April 2006

Oxovanadium(IV) cyclam and bicyclam complexes: potential CXCR4 receptor antagonists

scientific article

Photocurrent Switching Effects in TiO2 Modified with Ruthenium Polypyridine Complexes

Photogeneration of titanium(III) from titanium(IV) citrate in aqueous solution

scientific article published on 06 March 2006

Planar Ni(ii), Cu(ii) and Co(ii) tetraaza[14]annulenes: structural, electronic and magnetic properties and application to field effect transistors

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Polymeric hole-transport materials with side-chain redox-active groups for perovskite solar cells with good reproducibility

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Potassium bis(4,5-dimercapto-1,3-dithiole-2-thionato)nickelate 1,4,7,10,13,16-hexaoxa-2,3:11,12-dibenzocyclooctadeca-2,11-diene propanone solvate

scientific article published on 13 November 2001

Preparation and Structure of [Na.15-crown-5][Ni(mnt)2].H2O

Preparation and X-ray crystal structures of the first radical cation salts of4-iodotetrathiafulvalene: [ITTF.+]2{Pd[S2C2(CN) 2]2}2− and ITTF .+HSO4−

Preparation and photophysical studies of [Ln(hfac)3DPEPO], Ln = Eu, Tb, Yb, Nd, Gd; interpretation of total photoluminescence quantum yields

scientific article published on 30 July 2013

Preparation, X-ray structure and properties of a hexabrominated, symmetric indole trimer and its TCNQ adduct: a new route to functional molecular systems

Preparation, characterisation and complexation of a redox-active, soft-donor macrocycle

Preparation, structure and properties of [Na(cis-anti-cis-dicyclohexyl-18-crown-6)][Ni(dmit)2]4·2Me2CO

Preparation, structure and properties of the new TTF based organic donor BMTP-TTF: Unusual abstraction of sulphur from a seven membered ring

Probing the structural and electronic response of Magnus green salt compounds [Pt(NH2R)4][PtCl4] (R = H, CH3) to pressure

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Pt(II) metal complexes tailored with a newly designed spiro-arranged tetradentate ligand; harnessing of charge-transfer phosphorescence and fabrication of sky blue and white OLEDs

scientific article

Redox-Switchable Chromophores Based on Metal (Ni, Pd, Pt) Mixed-Ligand Dithiolene Complexes Showing Molecular Second-Order Nonlinear-Optical Activity

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Ruthenium Dyes with Azo Ligands: Light Harvesting, Excited-State Properties and Relevance to Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells

SFX as a low-cost ‘Spiro’ hole-transport material for efficient perovskite solar cells

SILAR BiOI-Sensitized TiO2 Films for Visible-Light Photocatalytic Degradation of Rhodamine B and 4-Chlorophenol

scientific article published on 6 February 2017

Sequential ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) deposition of Bi4Ti3O12 on TiO2: an enhanced and stable photocatalytic system for water purification

scholarly article by Gylen Odling et al published 2018 in Catalysis Science & Technology

Six-co-ordinate 1,2-dithiolene complexes of tungsten(II) of the type [W(S–S)(CO)2L2] [S–S = C3S5, benzene-1,2-dithiolate or maleonitriledithiolate; L2 = (PPh3)2, (PEt3)2 or Ph2P(CH2)2PPh2]

Spectroscopic, electrochemical and computational study of Pt-diimine-dithiolene complexes: rationalising the properties of solar cell dyes

scientific article published on 29 May 2008

Structural and Electronic Effects Due to Fluorine Atoms on Dibenzotetraaza-Annulenes Complexes

scientific article published on 29 August 2018

Structural and Magnetic Properties of [BDTA]2[MCl4] [M = Cu (1), Co (2), and Mn (3)], Revealing anS=1/2Square-Lattice Antiferromagnet with Weak Magnetic Exchange

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Structural and magnetic properties of the binuclear [Co2{(OPPh2)2N}4] complex: Ferromagnetic coupling between the two S=3/2 Co(II) ions

Structural, Magnetic, and Electronic Properties of Phenolic Oxime Complexes of Cu and Ni

scientific article published on 18 November 2011

Structural, spectroscopic and magnetic properties of M[R2P(E)NP(E)R'2]2 complexes, M = Co, Mn, E = S, Se and R, R' = Ph or iPr. Covalency of M-S bonds from experimental data and theoretical calculations

scientific article

Substituted [Cu(I)(POP)(bipyridyl)] and related complexes: synthesis, structure, properties and applications to dye-sensitised solar cells

scientific article published on 21 September 2010

Synthesis and characterization of [PPh4][M(diod)2], MNi, Pd, Cu or Au; crystal structure of [PPh4][Cu(diod)2]

Synthesis and complexation of tetrathiafulvalene derivatives functionalised with [15]aneS5 thioether crowns †

Synthesis and optical characterisation of triphenylamine-based hole extractor materials for CdSe quantum dots

scientific article published on 17 April 2013

Synthesis and properties of [Pt(4-CO(2)CH(3)-py)(2)(mnt)]: comparison of pyridyl and bipyridyl-based dyes for solar cells

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Synthesis and properties of [Pt(4-CO2CH3-py)2(dmit)] and [Pt(4-NO2-py)2(mnt)]: Exploring tunable Pt dyes

Synthesis of a self-assembled copper(II) metallo-rectangle with a guanosine-substituted terpyridine

scientific article published on 21 August 2013

Synthesis of nitrogen and sulfur macrocycles with cis exogenous oxygen and sulfur donor atoms

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Synthesis, Structure, and Complexation of a Large 28-mer Macrocycle Containing Two Binding Sites for Either Anions or Metal Ions

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Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetic Properties of [Dithiazolylium]x[M(tdas)2] Salts

Synthesis, crystal structure and properties of [N(C4H9)4][Ni(diod)2]: a potential precursor for new materials

Synthesis, structural characterization, and magnetic studies of polynuclear iron complexes with a new disubstituted pyridine ligand.

scientific article published in May 2005

Synthesis, structure and properties of [M(diod)2]x− complexes

Synthesis, structure and properties of [Pt(2,2′-bipyridyl-5,5′-dicarboxylic acid)(3,4-toluenedithiolate)]: tuning molecular properties for application in dye-sensitised solar cells

Synthesis, structure and properties of [ethylpyridinium][Ni(mnt)2]: evidence for an unusual magnetically ordered ground state

article published in 1999

Synthesis, structure and properties of new dithiolene complexes containing a 1,3,5-trithiepin ring

Synthesis, structure and properties of nickel complexes of 4,5-tetrathiafulvalene dithiolates: high conductivity in neutral dithiolate complexes

scholarly article by Nathalie Le Narvor et al published 1996 in Chemical Communications

Synthesis, structure and spectroscopic properties of a new class of polymerisable nickel dithiolenes

scholarly article by Simon Dalgleish et al published 2009 in Journal of Materials Chemistry

Synthesis, structure, and properties of [Pt(II)(diimine)(dithiolate)] dyes with 3,3'-, 4,4'-, and 5,5'-disubstituted bipyridyl: applications in dye-sensitized solar cells

scientific article

Tetrahedral and square planar Ni[(SPR(2))(2)N](2) complexes, R = Ph & (i)Pr revisited: experimental and theoretical analysis of interconversion pathways, structural preferences, and spin delocalization

scientific article published on June 2010

The Anions[W(CH3)7]− and[Re(CH3)8]2−

The first extended, delocalised compounds using sandwich complexes as bis-1,2-dithiolene ligands: preparation and characterisation of [Ni(bdt)(CpRubdt)] and [Ni(CpRubdt)2][CF3SO3]

The imitation game—a computational chemical approach to recognizing life

scientific article published on 01 October 2006

The molecular structure of silyl acetylene in a liquid crystal solution determined by analysis of direct couplings to hydrogen nuclei, compared with the gas phase structure from electron diffraction and microwave data

The synthesis, molecular structure and fluxional properties of the 1-phenylpropyne complex [WI2(CO){Ph2P(CH2)PPh2}(η2-MeC2Ph)]

Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF) and Enhancing Photoluminescence Quantum Yields of [CuI(diimine)(diphosphine)]+ Complexes—Photophysical, Structural, and Computational Studies

scientific article published on 23 July 2014

Tuning the LUMO energy of 1,10-phenanthroline in α-diimine–dithiolate Ni(II) complex and enhancement of nonlinear optical properties

Unique structural topologies involving metal–metal and metal–sulfur interactions: salts of [Ni(C3S5)2]x− with cis-anti-cis-dicyclohexyl-18-crown-6 complexed counter ions

Unprecedented Strong Panchromic Absorption from Proton-Switchable Iridium(III) Azoimidazolate Complexes

scientific article published on 16 November 2015

Unusual Solid State Properties of Transition Metal Complexes of Sulphur-Donor Ligands

V2O5as an inexpensive counter electrode for dye sensitized solar cells

Varying numbers and positions of carboxylate groups on Ru dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: uptake on TiO2, cell performance and cell stability

scholarly article in RSC Advances, vol. 4 no. 20, 2014

Why is Anatase a Better Photocatalyst than Rutile? The Importance of Free Hydroxyl Radicals

scientific article

[1,2,5]Thiadiazolo[3,4-]Pyridazine as an Internal Acceptor in the D-A-π-A Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

[BDTA]2[Cu(mnt)2]: An Almost Perfect One-Dimensional Magnetic Material

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

[TTF]2[Fe(tdas)2]: a molecular conductor containing magnetic counter-ions

scientific article published in March 1998

p-Type NiO Hybrid Visible Photodetector

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

‘Donor-free’ oligo(3-hexylthiophene) dyes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells