Works without ruthenium as well : Dye‐sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) incorporating metal‐free organic dyes have been considerably improved in recent years. Various design strategies have been established and are employed successfully in the synthesis of novel sensitizers. In this Review, structure–property–efficiency correlations are deduced from a vast number of dyes, which should help to design new and highly efficient sensitizers.
Solar cells comprised of nanoparticulate TiO2 porous film photosensitized with an adsorbing dye have been utilized as photoinduced charge separation systems in aqueous media with the view to forming future artificial photosynthetic systems able to create fuels from solar energy and water. The photoinduced charge separation of the sensitized TiO2 cell in a quasi‐solid, made from agarose or κ‐carrageenan, was investigated.
I–V curves under 98 mW · cm−2 irradiation of ITO/TiO2/Ru(dcbpy)2(NCS)2. Electrolyte: 0.1 M LiI/0.01 M I2 in a quasi‐solid of 0.2 wt.‐% gelatin containing a large excess of water. 相似文献