Systematic Investigations on the Roles of the Electron Acceptor and Neighboring Ethynylene Moiety in Porphyrins for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 39, 2015, Pages 21956-21965

  Wei, Tiantian ^a   Sun, Xi ^a   Li, Xin ^b   Ågren, Hans ^b   Xie, Yongshu ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

anchoring groups; cyano group; dye sensitized solar cells; linkers; porphyrin

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PORPHYRINS; SOLAR CELLS;

ANCHORING GROUPS; CO-SENSITIZATION; CYANO GROUPS; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; ELECTRONWITHDRAWING; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; LINKERS; PHOTO-ELECTRIC CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84943812182     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06610     Document Type: Article

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