Field of Nanoscience - April 2010
This map of Nanoscience is based on research-front data for the six-year period
ending in December 31, 2009. The map shows the major fields of
Nanoscience linked
together in a network based on the same principles as our research-front maps
showing highly cited papers. In the case of a field
map, we first identify all research fronts in
Essential Science IndicatorsSM
from Thomson
Reuters which were assigned to the Nanoscience category based on journal.
Then the linkage between fronts is computed based on how often they are
co-cited—that is, the frequency that current papers cite the two fronts jointly.
A clustering process then groups fronts into larger aggregates. Thus, each
circle in the map represents a group, or cluster, of research fronts on a broad
topic in Nanoscience. Hot fields containing concentrations of
recent highly cited papers are shown in yellow.
Annotations have been added to this map which represent the
main research themes. These appear as labels attached to specific regions on the
maps.
Additional information about Research Fronts.

Research Fronts
Label: 296 MONODISPERSE MAGNETIC IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES; POSITIVE CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING MNO NANOPARTICLE METHOD; IN-VIVO MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SURFACE MODIFIED MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES Discipline: Chemistry; Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 35 Tot. Cites: 21788; Uniq. Cites: 14389 Mean Year: 2005.90
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Label: 211 BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; HYBRID ZINC OXIDE CONJUGATED POLYMER BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; SOLUTION-PROCESSED ORGANIC TANDEM SOLAR CELLS; HYBRID PLANAR-MIXED MOLECULAR HETEROJUNCTION ASYMMETRIC TANDEM ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS Discipline: Chemistry; Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 46 Tot. Cites: 19552; Uniq. Cites: 11607 Mean Year: 2006.10
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Label: 372 CHEMICALLY FUNCTIONALIZED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTROCHEMICALLY FUNCTIONALIZED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE GAS SENSOR; WATER SOLUBLE SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE GRAFT COPOLYMER SYNTHESIS Discipline: Chemistry; Pharmacology & Toxicology Level 1 Docs: 30 Tot. Cites: 12438; Uniq. Cites: 8154 Mean Year: 2005.90
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Label: 169 GRAPHENE INTEGER QUANTUM HALL EFFECT; INDIVIDUAL CHEMICALLY REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE SHEETS; INDIVIDUAL GRAPHENE OXIDE SHEETS REDUCED; INDIVIDUAL REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE SHEETS; GRAPHENE SPIN VALVE DEVICES Discipline: Physics; Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 37 Tot. Cites: 13231; Uniq. Cites: 5709 Mean Year: 2007.30
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Label: 466 DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELL POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE REVIEW; HIGH TEMPERATURE POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL APPLICATIONS; SULFONATED AROMATIC POLY(ETHER ETHER KETONE) PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE DIRECT SYNTHESIS FUEL CELL APPLICATIONS Discipline: Engineering; Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 16 Tot. Cites: 6437; Uniq. Cites: 4909 Mean Year: 2005.60
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Label: 770 TRANSFER PRINTING SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE CARPET SUPER GROWTH WATER ROLE; IRON-CATALYZED CONTINUED SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE GROWTH RATES Discipline: Chemistry; Physics Level 1 Docs: 16 Tot. Cites: 6470; Uniq. Cites: 4856 Mean Year: 2005.80
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Label: 441 TRANSPARENT HIGHLY ORDERED TIO2 NANOTUBE ARRAYS; ORIENTED TIO2 NANOTUBES ARRAYS; VERTICALLY ORIENTED TIO2 NANOTUBE ARRAYS; HIGHLY CRYSTALLINE MESOPOROUS RUTILE TIO2; HIGH ASPECT RATIO TIO2 NANOTUBE ARRAYS Discipline: Chemistry; Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 12 Tot. Cites: 5807; Uniq. Cites: 4614 Mean Year: 2006.10
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Label: 249 VERTICAL ZNO NANOWIRE ARRAYS USING TEXTURED ZNO SEEDS; HIGH PERFORMANCE ZNO NANOWIRE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR SELF-ALIGNED NANOGAP GATE ELECTRODE METHOD; HIGH-PERFORMANCE ZNO NANOWIRE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; DENSITY-CONTROLLED ZNO NANOWIRE ARRAYS Discipline: Chemistry; Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 9 Tot. Cites: 5922; Uniq. Cites: 4359 Mean Year: 2005.60
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Label: 632 MULTIPLEXED DNA DETECTION; BIO-BAR-CODE-BASED DNA DETECTION; MULTIPLEXED DETECTION; NANOPARTICLE-BASED DETECTION; QUANTUM-SIZE-RELATED PROPERTIES Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 3 Tot. Cites: 4216; Uniq. Cites: 3759 Mean Year: 2004.70
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Label: 132 CRYSTALLINE CARBON HOLLOW SPHERES; CRYSTALLINE SNO2 HOLLOW SPHERES; FABRICATING METAL OXIDE HOLLOW SPHERES; MULTISHELLED CU2O HOLLOW SPHERES; ORDERED NANOSTRUCTURED TIN-BASED OXIDE/CARBON COMPOSITE NEGATIVE-ELECTRODE MATERIAL LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES Discipline: Materials Science; Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 10 Tot. Cites: 4459; Uniq. Cites: 3543 Mean Year: 2005.70
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Label: 370 SILICON NANOWIRE RADIAL P-N JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; SILICON NANOWIRE SOLAR CELLS; SILICON NANOWIRE VERTICAL SURROUND-GATE FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR; SILICON VERTICALLY INTEGRATED NANOWIRE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS Discipline: Chemistry; Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 10 Tot. Cites: 4796; Uniq. Cites: 3542 Mean Year: 2005.80
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Label: 233 DISPOSABLE CARBON NANOTUBE MODIFIED SCREEN-PRINTED BIOSENSOR; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE MODIFIED ELECTRODES; CARBON NANOTUBES MODIFIED THICK FILM STRIP ELECTRODE; CARBON NANOTUBES PASTE ELECTRODES; CARBON NANOTUBE ELECTRODES Discipline: Chemistry; Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 16 Tot. Cites: 4621; Uniq. Cites: 3355 Mean Year: 2006.10
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Label: 254 HIGHLY SELECTIVE FLUORESCENT CHEMOSENSOR; SELECTIVE OFF-ON FLUORESCENT SENSOR; ION SENSING-RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER COUPLING AG(I) HIGHLY-SELECTIVE-SENSITIVE RATIOMETRIC FLUORESCENT CHEMOSENSOR MODULAR APPROACH; SELECTIVE FLUORESCENT SENSOR Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 14 Tot. Cites: 4208; Uniq. Cites: 3273 Mean Year: 2006.80
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Label: 526 FAR-FIELD SUBDIFFRACTION OPTICAL MICROSCOPY USING METAMATERIAL CRYSTALS; OPTICAL NEGATIVE-INDEX METAMATERIALS; NEGATIVE INDEX MATERIALS USING SIMPLE SHORT WIRE PAIRS; NEAR-INFRARED DOUBLE NEGATIVE METAMATERIALS Discipline: Physics; Engineering Level 1 Docs: 11 Tot. Cites: 4356; Uniq. Cites: 3264 Mean Year: 2005.90
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Label: 206 FERROMAGNETIC TRANSITION-METAL-DOPED ZNO THIN FILMS; DILUTED MAGNETIC OXIDE THIN FILMS; 1O-BASED DILUTED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTING THIN FILMS; CU-DOPED ZNO THIN FILMS; CO-DOPED ZNO THIN FILMS Discipline: Physics; Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 6 Tot. Cites: 3510; Uniq. Cites: 2841 Mean Year: 2006.00
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Label: 305 HIGHLY EFFICIENT ORGANIC BLUE ELECTROPHOSPHORESCENT DEVICES; EFFICIENT WHITE ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; EFFICIENT SINGLE ACTIVE LAYER ELECTROPHOSPHORESCENT WHITE POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES Discipline: Materials Science; Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 11 Tot. Cites: 3870; Uniq. Cites: 2777 Mean Year: 2005.90
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Label: 1212 INTEGRATED OPTICAL COMPONENTS LONG-RANGE SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON UTILIZATION; SURFACE PLASMON QUANTUM OPTICS; PLASMON RESONANT SINGLE SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SUBWAVELENGTH SURFACE PLASMON MODES; SILVER NANOWIRE SURFACE PLASMON RESONATORS Discipline: Physics; Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 10 Tot. Cites: 3260; Uniq. Cites: 2494 Mean Year: 2005.80
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Label: 742 ACTIVE MOLECULAR PLASMONICS MOLECULAR SWITCH PLASMON RESONANCE CONTROL; MESOPOROUS SILICA NANOPARTICLES 3T3-L1 CELLS; WELL-ORDERED MESOPOROUS SILICA NANOPARTICLES Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 6 Tot. Cites: 2536; Uniq. Cites: 2341 Mean Year: 2007.10
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Label: 108 N-IN CODOPED P-TYPE ZNO FILMS; PHOSPHORUS-DOPED P-TYPE ZNO THIN FILMS; SB-DOPED P-TYPE ZNO FILMS; ROOM TEMPERATURE P-N ZNO BLUE-VIOLET LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; ZNO LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES GROWN Discipline: Physics Level 1 Docs: 4 Tot. Cites: 2668; Uniq. Cites: 2211 Mean Year: 2005.10
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Label: 173 PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL SOLAR CELL SINGLE WALL CARBON NANOTUBE SCAFFOLD PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRON CAPTURE-TRANSPORT; SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES BEARING COVALENTLY LINKED PHTHALOCYANINES Discipline: Chemistry; Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 7 Tot. Cites: 2437; Uniq. Cites: 2060 Mean Year: 2006.20
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Label: 1666 APTAMER-BASED ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; FLUORESCENT CONJUGATED POLYMER AMPLIFICATION CHEMICAL SENSORS; AMPLIFIED ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION; APTAMER-BASED ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS; LABEL-FREE ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION Discipline: Chemistry; Engineering Level 1 Docs: 5 Tot. Cites: 2247; Uniq. Cites: 1927 Mean Year: 2005.90
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Label: 468 FLUORESCENT MOLECULAR LOGIC GATES; ENZYME LOGIC GATES; CONCATENATED ENZYME-BASED LOGIC GATES OPERATING; MOLECULAR LOGIC ELEMENTS; ENZYME LOGIC NETWORK SYSTEM Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 3 Tot. Cites: 1985; Uniq. Cites: 1878 Mean Year: 2006.20
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Label: 938 SUPRAMOLECULAR HOST PROMOTES ORTHOFORMATE HYDROLYSIS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CATALYSIS; SUPRAMOLECULAR HOST-GUEST ASSEMBLY REVERSIBLE GUEST EXCHANGE MECHANISMS; FUNCTIONAL SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURES; CYCLODEXTRIN HOST FAMILIES Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 7 Tot. Cites: 1826; Uniq. Cites: 1586 Mean Year: 2006.60
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Label: 176 SURFACE PLASMON RESONANT INTERFERENCE NANOLITHOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE; EXTRAORDINARY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL TRANSMISSION PROPERTIES; TERAHERTZ SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; ENHANCED LIGHT TRANSMISSION Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 2 Tot. Cites: 1614; Uniq. Cites: 1557 Mean Year: 2004.70
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Label: 453 ORGANIC DYE-SENSITIZED IONIC LIQUID BASED SOLAR CELLS; STABLE MESOSCOPIC DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS BASED; STABLE HIGH-EFFICIENCY IONIC-LIQUID-BASED MESOSCOPIC DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; HIGHLY EFFICIENT SOLID-STATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS Discipline: Chemistry; Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 8 Tot. Cites: 1974; Uniq. Cites: 1422 Mean Year: 2006.70
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Label: 962 DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELL MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE SUPPORTED PTRU ANODE; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE ELECTRODES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES; CARBON NANOTUBE BASED ELECTRODES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE NETWORKS Discipline: Chemistry; Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 7 Tot. Cites: 1840; Uniq. Cites: 1379 Mean Year: 2004.90
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Label: 398 HIGHLY ORDERED GRAPHITIC MESOPOROUS CARBON; ORDERED MESOPOROUS CARBON HOLLOW SPHERES; POLYACRYLONITRILE-BASED ORDERED MESOPOROUS CARBON; FUNCTIONALIZED ORDERED MESOPOROUS CARBON; NITROGEN-CONTAINING ORDERED MESOPOROUS CARBON Discipline: Materials Science; Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 3 Tot. Cites: 1390; Uniq. Cites: 1186 Mean Year: 2005.30
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Label: 416 SELF-ASSEMBLED MULTIFUNCTIONAL BINARY NANOPARTICLE SUPERLATTICES; QUASI-TERNARY NANOPARTICLE SUPERLATTICES; BINARY NANOPARTICLE CRYSTALS; SYNERGISMIN BINARY NANOCRYSTAL SUPERLATTICES LEADS; NANOPARTICLE DESIGN Discipline: Chemistry; Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 3 Tot. Cites: 1252; Uniq. Cites: 1148 Mean Year: 2005.50
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Label: 611 HIGHLY EFFICIENT NON-DOPED BLUE ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; EFFICIENT ORGANIC BLUE-LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; RED ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE ELECTRON TRANSPORT MATERIALS; ORGANIC RED-LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES Discipline: Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 5 Tot. Cites: 1281; Uniq. Cites: 1080 Mean Year: 2004.90
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Label: 2059 HIGH POWER DENSITY DIRECT FORMIC ACID FUEL CELLS; DIRECT FORMIC ACID FUEL CELLS (DFAFC); MINIATURE AIR BREATHING DIRECT FORMIC ACID FUEL CELL; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS Discipline: Engineering Level 1 Docs: 2 Tot. Cites: 961; Uniq. Cites: 900 Mean Year: 2004.90
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Label: 347 AMORPHOUS MNO2 ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITOR ELECTRODE MATERIAL; HIGH-RATE ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITIVE ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE; AQUEOUS ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITOR Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 2 Tot. Cites: 819; Uniq. Cites: 768 Mean Year: 2006.30
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Label: 806 COLLOIDAL CDSE QUANTUM WIRES; BRANCHED CDSE NANOWIRES; CADMIUM SELENIDE QUANTUM WIRES; DESIGNING PBSE NANOWIRES; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRES Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 3 Tot. Cites: 807; Uniq. Cites: 734 Mean Year: 2004.70
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Label: 1190 SINGLE-MOLECULE SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-MOLECULE SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING HOT SPOTS; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN EXCITATION SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE-MOLECULE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE-ENHANCED RAMAN NANOPARTICLE TAGS Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 4 Tot. Cites: 778; Uniq. Cites: 668 Mean Year: 2007.70
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Label: 899 WEAKLY-INTERACTING ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACES; FUNCTIONAL INTERFACES; FUNCTIONAL ORGANIC THIN FILMS; NON-IDEAL POLAR ORGANIC MONOLAYERS; CONJUGATED POLYMER INTERFACES Discipline: Physics; Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 3 Tot. Cites: 687; Uniq. Cites: 610 Mean Year: 2007.00
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Label: 3096 STABLE CORE-SHELL FLUORESCENT SILICA NANOPARTICLES; ORGANICALLY MODIFIED SILICA NANOPARTICLES; WATCHING SILICA NANOPARTICLES GLOW; MULTICOLOR FRET SILICA NANOPARTICLES; DUAL-LUMINOPHORE-DOPED SILICA NANOPARTICLES Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 2 Tot. Cites: 628; Uniq. Cites: 597 Mean Year: 2005.20
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Label: 1429 SELF-ASSEMBLED 3D FLOWERLIKE IRON OXIDE NANOSTRUCTURE WATER TREATMENT APPLICATIONS; 3D FLOWERLIKE CERIA MICRO/NANOCOMPOSITE STRUCTURE; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE IRON OXIDE NANOTUBES; MAGNETIC ALPHA-FE2O3; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES Discipline: Materials Science Level 1 Docs: 2 Tot. Cites: 550; Uniq. Cites: 509 Mean Year: 2006.50
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Label: 488 SILICA-BASED MESOPOROUS ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID MATERIAL ORGANOSILICA SOLIDS; PERIODIC MESOPOROUS ORGANOSILICAS; LARGE HETEROCYCLIC BRIDGING GROUPS; MESOSCALE PERIODICITIES; SELF-ORGANIZATION Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 2 Tot. Cites: 516; Uniq. Cites: 475 Mean Year: 2006.00
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Label: 658 SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; INDIUM TIN OXIDE FILM COATED GLASS; BIOELECTROANALYTICAL SYSTEMS; ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 2 Tot. Cites: 399; Uniq. Cites: 374 Mean Year: 2005.50
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Label: 1137 VERTICALLY ALIGNED MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE ARRAYS; ALIGNED CARBON NANOTUBE COMPOSITE FILMS; INDIVIDUAL SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBE; SINGLE CARBON NANOTUBE; THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 2 Tot. Cites: 339; Uniq. Cites: 319 Mean Year: 2005.60
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Label: 628 ZNO NANOTUBE BASED DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; AEROGEL TEMPLATED ZNO DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; CURRENT GENERATION DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL ENHANCED ENERGY CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DYE-SENSTIZED SOLAR CELLS Discipline: Chemistry Level 1 Docs: 2 Tot. Cites: 172; Uniq. Cites: 160 Mean Year: 2007.80
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