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Recent Advances of Novel Designs of Dyes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

  • He Junjie ,
  • Chen Shuxin ,
  • Wang Tingting ,
  • Zeng Heping
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  • Institute of Functional Molecular, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640

Received date: 2011-05-14

  Revised date: 2011-09-14

  Online published: 2012-03-24

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21071054), the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (Nos. 2008B010800030, 2009B091300045) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of South China University of Technology (No. 2009ZM0179).

Abstract

The operation principle for dye sensitized solar cells and the factors affecting the efficiency are introduced. Recent advances of novel designs of dyes, including ruthenium complexes, amine, porphyrins and phthalocyanines, which are applied in dye sensitized solar cells, are reviewed. In this paper, structure-property relationship of dyes is also discussed.

Cite this article

He Junjie , Chen Shuxin , Wang Tingting , Zeng Heping . Recent Advances of Novel Designs of Dyes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2012 , (03) : 472 -485 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc1105142

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