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Oliver Langmar1, Carolina R Ganivet2, Annkatrin Lennert1
1Department of Physical Chemistry and Pharmacy, Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 3, 91058 Erlangen (Germany).
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|June 18, 2015
Abstract:
A route is reported for the synthesis of two electron-accepting phthalocyanines featuring linkers with different lengths as sensitizers for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Importantly, our devices based on novel nanorod-like CuO photocathodes showed high efficiencies of up to 0.191 %: the highest value reported to date for CuO-based DSSCs.
Keywords:
CuO electrodesCuO nanorodsdye-sensitized solar cellselectrochemical impedance spectroscopyzinc phthalocyanines
