A new ruthenium black dye design with improved optical properties for transparent dye sensitized solar devices.

R BoarettoS CarliStefano CaramoriC A BignozziD SacconeC MagistrisClaudia Barolo Guido Viscardi

Published in: Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) (2017)

We report here on the preparation and on the electronic properties of a panchromatic Ru(ii) sensitizer based on a new ligand which allows for higher molar extinction coefficients in the visible and better performances (32% efficiency improvement) over conventional "black dye" in transparent DSSC.

Keyphrases

highly efficient
aqueous solution
visible light
molecularly imprinted
energy transfer
tandem mass spectrometry
solid phase extraction