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Zhifang Wu1, Xin Li2, Hans Ågren2
1Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science & Technology , 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China.
Abstract:
We report a new dye (INPA) adopting pyrimidine-2-carboxylic acid as an electron-accepting and anchoring group to be used in dye-sensitized solar cells. IR spectral analysis indicates that the anchoring group may form two coordination bonds with TiO2 and so facilitate the interaction between the anchoring group and TiO2. The INPA-based cell exhibits an overall conversion efficiency of 5.45%, which is considerably higher than that obtained with cyanoacrylic acid commonly used as the electron acceptor.
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