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Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 539382, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/539382
Research Article

Novel Approach for the Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Anatase Titania and Their Photovoltaic Application

Pavuluri Srinivasu,1 Surya Prakash Singh,2 Ashraful Islam,2,3 and Liyuan Han2

1International Center for Young Scientists, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
2Photovoltaics Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan
3Center of Excellence for Research in Engineering Materials (CEREM), College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 11421, Saudi Arabia

Received 30 April 2011; Accepted 26 May 2011

Academic Editor: Idriss M. Bedja

Copyright © 2011 Pavuluri Srinivasu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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