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High‐Efficiency and Stable Mesoscopic Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells Based on a High Molar Extinction Coefficient Ruthenium Sensitizer and Nonvolatile Electrolyte
Dai-Bin Kuang,Cedric Klein,Seigo Ito,Jacques-E. Moser,Robin Humphry-Baker,Nick Evans,F. Duriaux,Carole Grätzel,Shaik M. Zakeeruddin,Michael Grätzel +9 more
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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
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TL;DR: A high molar extinction coefficient heteroleptic ruthenium complex, incorporating an electron-rich hexylthio-terminal chain, has been synthesized and demonstrated as an efficient sensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells.
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A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films
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Engineering of Efficient Panchromatic Sensitizers for Nanocrystalline TiO2-Based Solar Cells
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