New donor-π-acceptor type triazatruxene derivatives for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

Org Lett. 2013 Dec 6;15(23):6034-7. doi: 10.1021/ol402931u. Epub 2013 Nov 13.

Abstract

A new class of organic dyes based on triazatruxene have been designed and synthesized for dye-sensitized solar cells. The photoelectronic properties of these donor-π-acceptor dyes can be tuned by changing π-conjugated linkers. The best performance was found for triazatruxene dye TD1, wherein, with thiophene as the conjugated linker and cyanoacrylic acid as the acceptor, a power conversion efficiency up to 6.10% was achieved.