A Strategy to Boost the Efficiency of Rhodanine Electron Acceptor for Organic Dye: From Nonconjugation to Conjugation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 9, Issue 30, 2017, Pages 25225-25231

  Wan, Zhongquan ^a   Jia, Chunyang ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Yao, Xiaojun ^b  

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

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

adsorption geometry; conjugation structure; dye sensitized solar cells; electron acceptor; rhodanine derivative

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ACETIC ACID; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PH; SOLAR CELLS;

ADSORPTION GEOMETRIES; CONJUGATION STRUCTURE; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; NONCONJUGATED STRUCTURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RHODANINE; RHODANINE-3-ACETIC ACIDS;

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85026736790     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b04233     Document Type: Article

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