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CAS: 1493841-99-8
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Tianyou Peng

Wuhan University
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Zhen LI

Wuhan University
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Co-reporter: Huiyang Li, Yingqin Hou, Yizhou Yang, Runli Tang, Junnian Chen, Heng Wang, Hongwei Han, Tianyou Peng, Qianqian Li, and Zhen Li
pp: 12469
Publication Date(Web):November 11, 2013
DOI: 10.1021/am403668d
Four new pyrrole-based organic sensitizers with different isolation groups were conveniently synthesized and applied to dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs). The introduction of isolation group in the side chain could both suppress the formation of dye aggregates and electron recombination. Especially, when two pieces of D-π-A chromophore moieties shared one isolation group to construct the “H” type dye, the performance was further improved. Consequently, in the corresponding solar cell of LI-57, a short-circuit photocurrent density (Jsc) was tested to be 13.85 mA cm–2, while 0.72 V for the open-circuit photovoltage (Voc), 0.64 for the fill factor (FF), and 6.43% for the overall conversion efficiency (η), exceeding its analogue LI-55 (5.94%) with the same isolation group. The results demonstrated that both the size (bulk and shape) and the linkage mode between the D-π-A chromophores and the isolation groups, could affect the performance of sensitizers in DSCs in a large degree, providing a new approach to optimize the chemical structure of dyes to achieve high conversion efficiencies.Keywords: dye-sensitized solar cell; isolation group; organic sensitizer; pyrrole; “H” type dyes;