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ACS OMEGA
Volume 6, Issue 44, Pages 30069-30077Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c04794
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- National Science Foundation Committee of China [21673134, 21543012]
- Program for Science & Technology Innovation Team of Shaanxi Province [2018TD-030]
- International Science and Technology Cooperation Project of Shaanxi Province [2021KW-20]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [GK202101005]
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Through extending the molecular conjugation strategy, two organic dyes, A6 and A10, were designed and synthesized for dye-sensitized solar cells. The dyes A10 and A6 showed improved capabilities in light-harvesting and photocurrent densities compared to the previously reported dye AZ6. The A10-based DSSC achieved enhanced efficiency and high photocurrent density, while the A6-based DSSC exhibited outstanding stability.
We designed and synthesized two organic dyes (A6 and A10) for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) by extending the molecular conjugation strategy. The sensitizer A10 was constructed by inserting ethene into our previously reported sensitizer AZ6. The sensitizer A6 was obtained by further substituting the hydrogen of ethene with another donor (D) and pi-bridge-acceptor (pi-A) segment. The UV-vis spectra and J-V curves showed that the dyes A10 and A6 could effectively facilitate the light-harvesting and photocurrent densities with respect to AZ6. Consequently, the A10-based DSSC achieved an enhanced efficiency (8.54%) with a high photocurrent (18.81 mA cm(-2)). Desorption experiments of dyes adsorbed on TiO2 showed that compared with the monoanchoring dyes AZ6 and A10, the dianchoring configuration effectively strengthened the affinity of dye A6 with the photoanode, making it more difficult to leach from the photoanode. The A6-based DSSC shows outstanding stability, and its overall efficiency could remain 98.0% of its initial value after 3000 h of aging time, exceeding that of its monoanalogue AZ6 (remained 78.3% after 3000 h).
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