title: A Triphenylamine-Based Conjugated Polymer with Donor-π-Acceptor Architecture as Organic Sensitizer for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.
abstract: A conjugated polymer containing an electron donating backbone (triphenylamine) and an electron accepting side chain (cyanoacetic acid) with conjugated thiophene units as the linkers has been synthesized. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are fabricated utilizing this material as the dye sensitizer, resulting a typical power conversion efficiency of 3.39% under AM 1.5 G illumination, which represents the highest efficiency for polymer dye-sensitized DSSCs reported so far. The results show the good promise of conjugated polymers as sensitizers for DSSC applications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 4 Engineering Drive 4, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576, Singapore.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Mingjuan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saeys
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu