Abstract
A novel organic dye with N-substituted pyridinium as the acceptor and carboxylate as the anchoring group were designed and synthesized for dye-sensitized solar cells, which give solar energy-to-electricity conversion efficiency (η) of up to 3.47% in comparison with the reference Ru-complex (N719 dye) with an η value of 5.27% under similar experimental conditions. This new dye is simple in structure, very easy to synthesize, and gives high V oc.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1341-1344 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Tetrahedron Letters |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| State | Published - 14 Mar 2012 |