Efficient electron transfer and sensitizer regeneration in stable π-extended tetrathiafulvalene-sensitized solar cells

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 132, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 5164-5169

  Wenger, Sophie ^a   Bouit, Pierre Antoine ^b   Chen, Qianli ^a   Teuscher, Joël ^a   Di Censo, Davide ^a   Humphry Baker, Robin ^a   Moser, Jaques E ^a   Delgado, Juan Luis ^b,c   Martín, Nazario ^b,c   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^a   Grätzel, Michael ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIVING FORCES; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ELECTRON TRANSFER; KEY ISSUES; KINETIC PROPERTIES; MESOPOROUS TIO; OXIDATION POTENTIALS; PHOTO-VOLTAGE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REDOX MEDIATORS; TETRATHIAFULVALENES; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; LASER SPECTROSCOPY;

SOLAR CELLS;

TETRATHIAFULVALENE DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FILM; FORCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; POROSITY; REGENERATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRONS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; KINETICS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POROSITY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

EID: 77953107732     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja909291h     Document Type: Article

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