Molecular Engineering of Organic Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Applications.

Novel unsymmetrical organic sensitizers comprising donor, electron-conducting, and anchoring groups were engineered at a molecular level and synthesized for sensitization of mesoscopic titanium dioxide injection solar cells. The unsymmetrical organic sensitizers 3-(5-(4-(diphenylamino)styryl)thiophe...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 130; no. 19; pp. 6259 - 6267
Autores principales: Hagberg, Daniel P., Jun-Ho Yum, HyoJoong Lee, de Angelis, Filippo, Marinado, Tannia, Karlsson, Karl Martin, Humphry-Baker, Robin, Licheng Sun, Hagfeldt, Anders, Grätzel, Michael, Nazeeruddin, Md. K.
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Publicado: American Chemical Society 5/14/2008
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          Hagberg, Daniel P.
          Jun-Ho Yum
          HyoJoong Lee
          de Angelis, Filippo
          Marinado, Tannia
          Karlsson, Karl Martin
          Humphry-Baker, Robin
          Licheng Sun
          Hagfeldt, Anders
          Grätzel, Michael
          Nazeeruddin, Md. K.
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          Organic Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 30, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
          Laboratory for Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
          stituto CNR di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari (ISTM), do Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 1-06123, Perugia, Italy
          Physical Chemistry, Center of Molecular Devices, Royal Institute of Technology, Teknikringen 30, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden
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        Biochemical research
        Solar cells
        Titanium dioxide
        Dye-sensitized solar cells
        Density functionals
        Direct energy conversion
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          Biochemical research
          Solar cells
          Titanium dioxide
          Dye-sensitized solar cells
          Density functionals
          Direct energy conversion
      ab: Novel unsymmetrical organic sensitizers comprising donor, electron-conducting, and anchoring groups were engineered at a molecular level and synthesized for sensitization of mesoscopic titanium dioxide injection solar cells. The unsymmetrical organic sensitizers 3-(5-(4-(diphenylamino)styryl)thiophen-2-yl)-2-cyanoacrylic acid (D5), 3-(5-bis(4-(diphenylamino)styryl)thiophen-2-yl)-2-cyanoacrylic acid (D7), 5-(4-(bis(4-methoxyphenylamino)styryl)thiophen-2-yl)-2-cyanoacrylic acid (D9), and 3-(5-bis(4,4′-dimethoxydiphenylamino)styryl)thiophen-2-yl)-2-cyanoacrylic acid (D11) anchored onto TiO and were tested in dye-sensitized solar cell with a volatile electrolyte. The monochromatic incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency of these sensitizers is above 80%, and D11-sensitized solar cells yield a short-circuit photocurrent density of 13.90 ± 0.2 mA/cm, an open-circuit voltage of 740 ± 10 mV, and a fill factor of 0.70 ± 0.02, corresponding to an overall conversion efficiency of 7.20% under standard AM 1.5 sun light. Detailed investigations of these sensitizers reveal that the long electron lifetime is responsible for differences in observed open-circuit potential of the cell. As an alternative to liquid electrolyte cells, a solid-state organic hole transporter is used in combination with the D9 sensitizer, which exhibited an efficiency of 3.25%. Density functional theory/time-dependent density functional theory calculations have been employed to gain insight into the electronic structure and excited states of the investigated species.
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