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Novel organic dyes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2006-10-03)
Shao-Lu Li, Ke-Jian Jiang, Ke-Feng Shao, Lian-Ming Yang
ABSTRACT

Two novel metal-free organic dyes containing thienothiophene and thiophene segments have been synthesized. Nano-crystalline TiO2 dye-sensitized solar cells were fabricated using these dyes as light-harvesting sensitizers, and a high solar energy-to-electricity conversion efficiency of 6.23% was achieved.

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Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene-2,5-dicarboxaldehyde, 96%