Organic sensitizers with pyridine ring anchoring group for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 30, 2014, Pages 16433-16440

  Cui, Jin ^a   Lu, Jianfeng ^a   Xu, Xiaobao ^a   Cao, Kun ^a   Wang, Zhong ^a   Alemu, Getachew ^a   Yuang, Huailiang ^a   Shen, Yan ^a   Xu, Jie ^b   Cheng, Yibing ^a,c   Wang, Mingkui ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b WUHAN TEXTILE UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; PYRIDINE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ANCHORING GROUPS; CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; HOLE INJECTION; NEGATIVE SHIFT; OVERALL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PYRIDINE RINGS; VALENCE BAND EDGES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84900476756     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp410829c     Document Type: Article

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