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Anthraquinone dyes as photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells |
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| Authors: | Chaoyan Li Xichuan Yang Ruikui Chen Jingxi Pan Haining Tian Hongjun Zhu Xiuna Wang Anders Hagfeldt Licheng Sun |
| Affiliation: | aState Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, DUT–KTH Joint Education and Research Center on Molecular Devices, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), 158-46 Zhongshan Road, 116012 Dalian, PR China;bCenter of Molecular Devices, Physical Chemistry, KTH Chemical Science and Engineering, Teknikringen 30, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden;cCenter of Molecular Devices, Organic Chemistry, KTH Chemical Science and Engineering, Teknikringen 30, 10044 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Abstract: | Three anthraquinone dyes with carboxylic acid as anchoring group are designed and synthesized as sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Preliminary photophysical and photoelectrochemical measurements show that these anthraquinone dyes have very low performance on DSSC applications, although they have broad and intense absorption spectra in the visible region (up to 800 nm). Transient absorption kinetics, fluorescence lifetime measurements and density functional theory (DFT) calculations are conducted to investigate the cause of such low DSSC performance for these dyes. The results show that the strong electron-withdrawing character of the two carbonyl groups on anthraquinone framework may lie behind the low performance by suppressing the efficient electron injection from the dye to the conduction band of TiO2. |
| Keywords: | Dye-sensitized solar cells Organic dyes Anthraquinone dyes |
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