Multiple linker half-squarylium dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells; Are two linkers better than one?

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2883-2894

  Connell, Arthur ^a   Holliman, Peter J ^a   Jones, Eurig W ^a   Furnell, Leo ^a   Kershaw, Christopher ^a   Davies, Matthew L ^a   Gwenin, Christopher D ^a   Pitak, Mateusz B ^b   Coles, Simon J ^b   Cooke, Graeme ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLATION; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYES; HAFNIUM; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR CELLS;

ATR-IR SPECTROSCOPY; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; LINKER GROUPS; SQUARAINE DYES; SQUARYLIUM DYES; THEORETICAL STUDY; X RAY STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84922191487     PISSN: 20507488     EISSN: 20507496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4ta06896c     Document Type: Article

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