The effect of direct amine substituted push-pull oligothiophene chromophores on dye-sensitized and bulk heterojunction solar cells performance

Tetrahedron

Volumn 69, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 3584-3592

  Gupta, Akhil ^a,b   Armel, Vanessa ^b   Xiang, Wanchun ^b   Fanchini, Giovanni ^a   Watkins, Scott E ^a   Macfarlane, Douglas R ^b   Bach, Udo ^a,b,c   Evans, Richard A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MELBOURNE CENTRE FOR NANOFABRICATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bulk heterojunction; Donor acceptor; Dye sensitized solar cells; Oligothiophene

Indexed keywords

AMINE; ELECTROLYTE; IONIC LIQUID; METAL COMPLEX;

ARTICLE; BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICES; DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSH PULL OLIGOTHIOPHENE CHROMOPHORE; SENSITIZATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

EID: 84875246079     PISSN: 00404020     EISSN: 14645416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2013.02.040     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. B. O'Regan, and M. Grätzel Nature 353 1991 737 740
2. J.J.M. Halls, C.A. Walsh, N.C. Greenham, E.A. Marseglia, R.H. Friend, S.C. Moratti, and A.B. Holmes Nature 376 1995 498 500
3. G. Yu, J. Gao, J.C. Hummelen, F. Wudl, and A.J. Heeger Science 270 1995 1789 1791
4. C.W. Tang Appl. Phys. Lett. 48 1986 183 185
5. W.L. Ma, C.Y. Yang, X. Gong, K. Lee, and A.J. Heeger Adv. Funct. Mater. 15 2005 1617 1622
6. G. Li, V. Shrotriya, J.S. Huang, Y. Yao, T. Moriarty, K. Emery, and Y. Yang Nat. Mater. 4 2005 864 868
7. A. Mishra, M.K.R. Fischer, and P. Bauerle Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 48 2009 2474 2499
8. H. Burckstummer, N.M. Kronenberg, M. Gsanger, M. Stolte, K. Meerholz, and F. Wurthner J. Mater. Chem. 20 2010 240 243
9. Y.S. Liu, X.J. Wan, B. Yin, J.Y. Zhou, G.K. Long, S.G. Yin, and Y.S. Chen J. Mater. Chem. 20 2010 2464 2468
10. A. Mishra, and P. Bauerle Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 51 2012 2020 2067
11. K.N. Winzenberg, P. Kemppinen, G. Fanchini, M. Bown, G.E. Collis, C.M. Forsyth, K. Hegedus, T.B. Singh, and S.E. Watkins Chem. Mater. 21 2009 5701 5703
12. A. Gupta, A. Ali, A. Bilic, M. Gao, K. Hegedus, B. Singh, S.E. Watkins, G.J. Wilson, U. Bach, and R.A. Evans Chem. Commun. 2012 1889 1891
13. A. Gupta, A. Ali, T.B. Singh, A. Bilic, U. Bach, and R.A. Evans Tetrahedron 68 2012 9440 9447
14. K.R.J. Thomas, Y.-C. Hsu, J.T. Lin, K.-M. Lee, K.-C. Ho, C.-H. Lai, Y.-M. Cheng, and P.-T. Chou Chem. Mater. 20 2008 1830 1840
15. P.F. Xia, X.J. Feng, J.P. Lu, S.-W. Tsang, R. Movileanu, Y. Tao, and M.S. Wong Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.) 20 2008 4810 4815
16. K. Sreenath, C.V. Suneesh, V.K.R. Kumar, and K.R. Gopidas J. Org. Chem. 73 2008 3245 3251
17. P.V. Bedworth, Y. Cai, A. Jen, and S.R. Marder J. Org. Chem. 61 1996 2242 2246
18. F. Würthner, R. Wortmann, R. Matschiner, K. Lukaszuk, K. Meerholz, Y. DeNardin, R. Bittner, C. Brauchle, and R. Sens Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 36 1997 2765 2768
19. F. Zhang, Y.-H. Luo, J.-S. Song, X.-Z. Guo, W.-L. Liu, C.-P. Ma, Y. Huang, M.-F. Ge, Z. Bo, and Q.-B. Meng Dyes Pigm. 81 2009 224 230
20. M.K.R. Fischer, S. Wenger, M.K. Wang, A. Mishra, S.M. Zakeeruddin, M. Grätzel, and P. Bauerle Chem. Mater. 22 2010 1836 1845
21. Y. Bai, Q.J. Yu, N. Cai, Y.H. Wang, M. Zhang, and P. Wang Chem. Commun. 2011 4376 4379
22. T. Daeneke, T.H. Kwon, A.B. Holmes, N.W. Duffy, U. Bach, and L. Spiccia Nat. Chem. 3 2011 211 215
23. A. Yella, H.W. Lee, H.N. Tsao, C. Yi, A.K. Chandiran, M.K. Nazeeruddin, E.W.G. Diau, C.Y. Yeh, S.M. Zakeeruddin, and M. Grätzel Science 334 2011 629 634
24. C.N. McEwen, R.G. McKay, and B.S. Larsen Anal. Chem. 77 2005 7826 7831
25. S.M. Feldt, E.A. Gibson, E. Gabrielsson, L.C. Sun, G. Boschloo, and A. Hagfeldt J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132 2010 16714 16724