Novel TPD-based organic D-pi-A dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells.
A novel class of organic D-pi-A dyes employing a N,N,N',N'-tetraphenylbenzidine (TPD) unit as donor was designed and synthesized for dye-sensitized solar cells, which achieved a solar-to-electricity conversion efficiency (eta) of 5.63% in preliminary tests as compared to 6.42% for N3 dye under the same experimental conditions.
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Gang
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Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China.
Zhou
Yan-Fang
YF
Cao
Xing-Bo
XB
Bao
Peng
P
Jiang
Ke-Jian
KJ
Lin
Yuan
Y
Yang
Lian-Ming
LM