Push-pull zinc phthalocyanine bearing hexa-tertiary substituted carbazolyl donor groups for dye-sensitized solar cells
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UAM. Departamento de Química OrgánicaPublisher
MDPIDate
2020-04-07Citation
10.3390/molecules25071692
Molecules 25.7 (2020): 1692
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1420-3049DOI
10.3390/molecules25071692Funded by
This work was financially supported by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science (Grant Number PN18-12-SC01) and the RSP unit general facilities of the Faculty of Science GFS (GS 01/01, GS 03/01, GS 01/03, GS 01/05, and GS 02/13) (S.M.). T.T. thanks MINECO (project CTQ2017-85393-P) and ERA-NET/European Commission/MINECO, (UNIQUE, SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund 2 Nº 008/PCI2019-111889-2). R.D. acknowledges ANR for funding through ODYCE project. (Grant agreement No ANR-14-OHRI-0003-01). RD thanks European Research Council (ERC) for funding. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 832606)—Project PISCOProject
Gobierno de España. CTQ2017-85393-P; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/832606/ERC//PISCOEditor's Version
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25071692Subjects
DSSC; Dye-sensitized solar cells; Zn(II) phthalocyanine; A3B; QuímicaRights
© 2020 by the authorsAbstract
An asymmetrical, push-pull phthalocyanine bearing bulky tert-butylcarbazolyl moieties as electron donor and carboxylic acid as anchoring group was synthetized and tested as a photosensitizer in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). The new photosensitizer was characterized by 1H and 13C NMR, UV-Vis and mass spectrometry. The bulky tert-butylcarbazolyl moieties avoid the aggregation of the phthalocyanine dye. DFT studies indicate that the HOMO is delocalized throughout the π-electron system of the substituted phthalocyanine and the LUMO is located on the core of the molecule with a sizable electron density distribution on carboxyl groups. The new dye has been used as a photosensitizer in transparent and opaque dye-sensitized solar cells, which exhibit poor efficiencies related to a low Jsc
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Google Scholar:Ghazal, Basma
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Azizi, Kobra
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Ewies, Ewies F.
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Youssef, Ahmed S.A.
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Mwalukuku, Valid Mwatati
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Demadrille, Renaud
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Torres Cebada, Tomás
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Makhseed, Saad
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