Synthesis and characterization of novel thieno[3,2-b]thiophene based metal-free organic dyes with different heteroaromatic donor moieties as sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2017

Autores

Sara S. M. Fernandes (Autor) Outra; M. Cidália R. Castro (Autor) Outra; I. Mesquita (Autor) FEUP; L. Andrade (Autor) FEUP; A. Mendes (Autor) FEUP; M. Manuela M. Raposo (Autor) Outra

Revista

Título: Dyes and Pigments

Vol. 136

Páginas: 46-53

ISSN: 0143-7208

Editora: Elsevier

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Classificação Científica

CORDIS: Ciências Físicas > Química > Química orgânica

FOS: Ciências exactas e naturais > Química

Projetos Associados

BI-DSC - Building Integrated Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-00K-RWP

DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2016.08.020

Abstract (EN): Four novel heterocycle dyes 3a-d were synthesized in order to study the variations produced in the optical, electronic and photovoltaic properties by substitution of different electron-rich heterocyclic groups to the thieno[3,2-b]thiophene system. The final push-pull conjugated dyes 3a-d were synthesized by Suzuki-Miyaura coupling reaction followed by Knoevenagel condensation of the corresponding aldehyde precursors with cyanoacrylic acid 2a-d. These new push-pull systems are based on a thieno[3,2-b]thiophene spacer, a cyanoacetic acid anchoring group and several electron-rich heterocycles (thiophene, pyrrole and furan) as donor groups. The multidisciplinary study concerning the optical, redox and photovoltaic characterization of the dyes reveals that compound 3b bearing a hexyl-bithiophene donor group/heterocyclic spacer exhibits the best overall conversion efficiency (2.49%) as sensitizer in nanocrystalline TiO2 dye sensitized solar cells. Co-adsorption studies between N719 and 3b revealed that upon addition of N719 co-adsorbent, the optimized cell efficiencies were improved by 16e77%. The best efficiency was 4.40%, corresponding to 54% of the photovoltaic performance of the N719-based DSSC fabricated and measured under similar conditions

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

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