Efficient electron injection due to a special adsorbing group’s combination of carboxyl and hydroxyl: dye-sensitized solar cells based on new hemicyanine dyes
作者:You-Sheng Chen、Chao Li、Zhang-Hua Zeng、Wei-Bo Wang、Xue-Song Wang、Bao-Wen Zhang
DOI:10.1039/b418906j
日期:——
A series of new benzothiazolium hemicyanine dyes (HC-1, HC-2, HC-3, HC-4, and HC-5 in Scheme 1) were designed and synthesized for sensitization of nanocrystalline TiO2 electrodes by introducing carboxyl, hydroxyl, or sulfonate anchoring groups onto the dyes' skeletons. A naphthothiazolium hemicyanine with both sulfonate and hydroxyl (HC-6) was also prepared for comparison. The photophysical and photoelectrochemical studies revealed that three kinds of efficiencies, i.e. the fluorescence quenching efficiencies of the dyes by colloidal TiO2, the monochromatic incident photon-to-current conversion efficiencies (IPCEs) for the dye-sensitized TiO2 electrodes, and the overall photoelectric conversion efficiencies (η) for the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) based on these hemicyanines, all depended strongly on the anchoring group types and decreased in the order: carboxyl + hydroxyl > carboxyl > sulfonate + hydroxyl, indicating the importance of the dyes' adsorbing groups for their sensitization effects in DSSCs. The combination of carboxyl and hydroxyl as anchoring groups led to highly efficient IPCEs over a wide spectrum region with the maximum IPCE of 73.6% and a η of 5.2% under AM1.5 Global simulated light (80 mW cmâ2) for the HC-1 based DSSC, which may result from the complex formation between HC-1 and TiO2 and the cathodic shift of the excited state oxidation potential.
设计并合成了一系列新型苯并噻唑鎓半菁染料(Scheme 1中的HC-1、HC-2、HC-3、HC-4和HC-5),通过在染料骨架上引入羧基、羟基或磺酸盐锚定基团,用于纳米晶TiO2电极的敏化。同时,为了比较,还制备了一种带有磺酸盐和羟基的萘并噻唑鎓半菁染料(HC-6)。光物理和光电化学研究揭示了三种效率,即染料的荧光猝灭效率、染料敏化TiO2电极的单色光入射光子-电流转换效率(IPCEs)以及基于这些半菁染料的染料敏化太阳能电池(DSSCs)的整体光电转换效率(η),都强烈依赖于锚定基团的类型,并且按照以下顺序递减:羧基 + 羟基 > 羧基 > 磺酸盐 + 羟基,这表明染料的吸附基团对于其在DSSCs中的敏化效果至关重要。羧基和羟基作为锚定基团的组合,在广泛的光谱区域内实现了高效的IPCE,HC-1基DSSC在AM1.5全球模拟光(80 mW cm−2)下,最大IPCE达到73.6%,η为5.2%,这可能源于HC-1与TiO2之间形成的复合物以及激发态氧化电位的阴极偏移。