Effect of anchoring groups in zinc phthalocyanine on the dye-sensitized solar cell performance and stability

Chemical Science

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1145-1150

  García Iglesias, Miguel ^a   Yum, Jun Ho ^b   Humphry Baker, Robin ^b   Zakeeruddin, Shaik M ^b   Péchy, Peter ^b   Vázquez, Purificación ^a   Palomares, Emilio ^c,d   Grätzel, Michael ^b   Nazeeruddin, Mohammad K ^b   Torres, Tomás ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH OF CATALONIA ICIQ   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHORING GROUPS; CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; ENHANCED STABILITY; INITIAL VALUES; LIGHT SOAKING; NON-VOLATILE ELECTROLYTE; SEMI-CONDUCTOR SURFACES; ZINC PHTHALOCYANINES;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 79957802315     PISSN: 20416520     EISSN: 20416539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c0sc00602e     Document Type: Article

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