Quantum chemical designing of efficient TC4-based sensitizers by modification of auxiliary donor and π-spacer

Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1272-1281

  Abdullah, Muhammad Imran ^a   Janjua, Muhammad Ramzan Saeed Ashraf ^b   Nazar, Muhammad Faizan ^c   Mahmood, Asif ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRON-DONATING; ELECTRONWITHDRAWING; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS; STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION;

ELECTRONS; PHOTOSENSITIZERS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLAR CELLS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION;

EID: 84888858812     PISSN: 00092673     EISSN: 13480634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20130146     Document Type: Article

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