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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 132, 期 14, 页码 5164-5169出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja909291h
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [NF 20020-125163/1]
- European Science Foundation [05-SONS-FP-021 SOHYD]
- MEC of Spain [CT2008-00795/BQU, 2010C-07-25200]
- Comunidad de Madrid [P-PPQ-000225-0505]
- MICINN
- EU
The development of metal-free organic sensitizers is a key issue in dye-sensitized solar cell research. We report successful photovoltaic conversion with a new class of stable tetrathiafulvalene derivatives, showing surprising electrochemical and kinetic properties. With time-resolved spectroscopy we could observe highly efficient regeneration of the photo-oxidized tetrathiafulvalene sensitizers, which were attached to a mesoporous TiO2 film, by a redox mediator in the pores (iodide/tri-iodide), even though the measured driving force for regeneration was only similar to 150 mV. This important proof-of-concept shows that sensitizers with a small driving force, i.e. the oxidation potential of the sensitizer is separated from the redox potenial of the mediator by as little as 150 mV, can operate functionally in dye-sensitized solar cells and eventually aid to reduce photovoltage losses due to poor energetic alignment of the materials.
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