Novel unsymmetrically pi-elongated porphyrin for dye-sensitized TiO2 cells.
A novel naphthyl-fused zinc porphyrin carboxylic acid has been synthesized and employed successfully in a dye-sensitized TiO2 solar cell, with a power conversion efficiency of 4.1%, which is improved by 50% relative to the unfused porphyrin reference cell.
Tanaka
Masanobu
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Kyoto University International Innovation Center, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8520, Japan.
Hayashi
Shinya
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Seunghun
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Umeyama
Tomokazu
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Matano
Yoshihiro
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Imahori
Hiroshi
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