Effect of the anchoring group in the performance of carbazole-phenothiazine dyads for dye-sensitized solar cells

Dyes and Pigments

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 536-545

  Gupta, Kankatala S V ^a   Zhang, Ji ^b,d   Marotta, Gabriele ^b   Reddy, Marri Anil ^a   Singh, Surya Prakash ^a   Islam, Ashraful ^c   Han, Liyuan ^c   De Angelis, Filippo ^b   Chandrasekharam, Malapaka ^a   Pastore, Mariachiara ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anchoring group; Carbazole phenothiazine; DSSC; Malonic acid; Organic dyes; TD DFT

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; INSECTICIDES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SOLAR CELLS;

ANCHORING GROUPS; CARBAZOLE-PHENOTHIAZINE; DSSC; MALONIC ACID; ORGANIC DYE; TD-DFT;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84924293051     PISSN: 01437208     EISSN: 18733743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2014.09.032     Document Type: Article

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