Panchromatic donor-acceptor-donor conjugated oligomers for dye-sensitized solar cell applications

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8715-8722

  Stalder, Romain ^a   Xie, Dongping ^a   Islam, Ashraful ^b   Han, Liyuan ^b   Reynolds, John R ^a,c   Schanze, Kirk S ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

benzothiadiazole; conjugated oligomer; donor acceptor chromophore; dye sensitized solar solar cell; isoindigo; phosphonate anchoring group

Indexed keywords

CHROMOPHORES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SUBSTRATES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANCHORING GROUPS; BENZOTHIADIAZOLES; CONJUGATED OLIGOMER; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; DYE SENSITIZED; ISOINDIGO;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84902499826     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am501515s     Document Type: Article

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