Molecular design and synthesis of ruthenium(ii) sensitizers for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells
作者:A. Anthonysamy、Y. Lee、B. Karunagaran、V. Ganapathy、S.-W. Rhee、S. Karthikeyan、K. S. Kim、M. J. Ko、N.-G. Park、M.-J. Ju、J. K. Kim
DOI:10.1039/c1jm11760b
日期:——
We synthesized hydrophobic ruthenium(II) sensitizers (SY-04 and SY-05) with high molar extinction coefficient by extending the π-conjugation of 3,4- or 3-alkylthiophene-substituted bipyridine ligands. Both dyes displayed a remarkably high molar extinction coefficient of 21.7 × 103 M−1 cm−1 arising from red-shift of their metal-to-ligand charge transfer band when compared to a commonly used N3 sensitizer. The solar-to-electrical energy conversion efficiency (η) of the SY-04 based dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) was 7.70%, which is 27% higher than that (6.05%) of the N3-based DSC under the same cell fabrication conditions. The increased η was attributed to the increase in life time and recombination half-life measured by electrochemical impedance and transition absorption spectroscopy, respectively. Density functional theory and time-dependent density functional theory calculations of two dyes in both gas phase and solution were performed. The calculated values of the highest occupied and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals and absorption spectra are in good agreement with the experimental results.
我们合成了具有高摩尔消光系数的疏水性钌(II)敏化剂(SY-04和SY-05),通过扩展3,4-或3-烷基噻吩取代的双吡啶配体的π-共轭结构。与常用的N3敏化剂相比,这两种染料的金属至配体电荷转移带红移,导致其摩尔消光系数显著提高,达到21.7 × 103 M−1 cm−1。基于SY-04的染料敏化太阳能电池(DSC)的光电能量转换效率(η)为7.70%,比在相同电池制备条件下基于N3的DSC的6.05%高出27%。提高的η归因于通过电化学阻抗和瞬态吸收光谱分别测量的寿命和复合半寿命的增加。我们对两种染料在气相和溶液中进行了密度泛函理论和含时密度泛函理论计算。计算得到的最高占据和最低未占据分子轨道的能级以及吸收光谱与实验结果非常吻合。