申请人:ADEKA CORPORATION
公开号:US20140299191A1
公开(公告)日:2014-10-09
A dye-sensitized solar cell including a working electrode having a photocatalytic film, a counter electrode, and an electrolyte-containing layer or solid charge-transfer layer containing a basic compound, wherein the photocatalytic film includes an oxide semiconductor layer containing a dye compound represented by the following formula (1),
wherein Y is an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and having —CO—NR
4
— or —SO
2
—NR
4
— in the group, or a direct bond, Z is a conjugated group, R
1
, R
2
, and R
3
each represent an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group or an optionally substituted hydrocarbonoxy group, at least one of R
1
, R
2
, and R
3
is an optionally substituted hydrocarbonoxy group, and R
4
represents a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.