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Synthesis and Photovoltaic Properties of Two Dimensional Organic Dyes Containing Benzothiadiazole Unit

  • Cao Zhencai ,
  • He Zhou ,
  • Deng Lijun ,
  • Tan Songting
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  • Key Laboratory of Environmentally Friendly Chemistry and Applications of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105

Received date: 2013-09-03

  Revised date: 2013-10-11

  Online published: 2013-10-31

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51173154) and the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (No. 13JJ2025).

Abstract

By introducing the narrow band gap unit (dithiophene-benzothiadiazole) to the organic dye system, two novel organic dyes (DD2, DH2) with two-dimensional structures were designed and synthesized. The influence of dithiophene-ben- zothiadiazole unit acting as side chain or bridge group on the photophysical, electrochemical, and photovoltaic properties of the two dye-sensitizers was studied systematically. Two as-synthsized dyes with dithiophene-benzothiadiazole unit exhibited broad absorption spectra. Under one sun illumination (100 mW·cm-2, AM 1.5 G), DH2- and DD2-based dye-sensitized solar cells showed the power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of 1.67% and 3.26%, respectively. With optimization of co-adsorbent chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA), DH2 exhibited a relatvely good anti-aggregation ability. Therefore, CDCA had a negligible effect on the PCE of DH2-based DSSCs. However, DD2 achieved an enhanced PCE of 5.53% after adding CDCA as co-adsorbent.

Cite this article

Cao Zhencai , He Zhou , Deng Lijun , Tan Songting . Synthesis and Photovoltaic Properties of Two Dimensional Organic Dyes Containing Benzothiadiazole Unit[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2014 , 34(2) : 340 -348 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc201309006

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