Three is not a crowd: efficient sensitization of TiO2 by a bulky trichromic trisheteroleptic cycloruthenated dye

Paolo G Bomben; Javier Borau-Garcia; Curtis P Berlinguette

doi:10.1039/c2cc00136e

Three is not a crowd: efficient sensitization of TiO2 by a bulky trichromic trisheteroleptic cycloruthenated dye

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Jun 7;48(45):5599-601. doi: 10.1039/c2cc00136e. Epub 2012 Apr 30.

Authors

Paolo G Bomben¹, Javier Borau-Garcia, Curtis P Berlinguette

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary and the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment & Economy, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Canada T2N-1N4.

PMID: 22546836
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc00136e

Abstract

A cyclometalated Ru dye bearing two triphenylamine groups to augment light absorption exhibits a power conversion efficiency (PCE) in excess of 7% in the dye-sensitized solar cell despite having a large molecular footprint on TiO(2).