Facile synthesis of metal-free organic dyes featuring a thienylethynyl spacer for dye sensitized solar cells

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 104, Issue , 2014, Pages 197-203

  Al Eid, Manal ^a   Lim, Sunghwan ^b   Park, Kwang Won ^b   Fitzpatrick, Brian ^a   Han, Chi Hwan ^c   Kwak, Kyungwon ^b   Hong, Jongin ^b   Cooke, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Alkyne; Dye sensitized solar cells; Metal free; Organic dye; Solvatochromic; Thiophene

Indexed keywords

ALKYNE; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; METAL-FREE; ORGANIC DYE; SOLVATOCHROMIC;

PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; THIOPHENE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84893156622     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2014.01.004     Document Type: Article

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