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Ethynyl thiophene-appended unsymmetrical zinc porphyrin sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

P. Silviya Reeta, Lingamallu Giribabu, Min-Hung Hsu, D. Kishore Kumar, Hari M. Upadhyaya, Neil Robertson, Tracy Hewat

RSC Advances · 2014 · 23 citations · 42 references

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Abstract

Zn porphyrin sensitizers with ethynyl thiophene linker, pyrene/fluorene donors and cyanoacrylic or malonic acid anchoring group were synthesized for DSSC applications. Conversion efficiency up to 3.14% was exhibited.

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