摘要： Developing arylamine photosensitizers with high extinction coefficients, proper electronic structures, and steric properties is warranted for the dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) employing iodine-free redox shuttles. Two new organic sensitizers (M21 and M22) featuring unsymmetrical truxene-based triarylamine donor have been synthesized and compared to its reference sensitizer M4. The effects of unsymmetrical truxene-based triarylamine donors were investigated by their absorption spectra, electrochemical and photovoltaic properties. The incorporation of strong electron donor unit (i.e., dipropylfluorene and 4-methoxybiphenyl) has resulted in an improved light harvesting capacity, and thus photocurrent as well as efficiency of cells. M22 sensitized DSCs employing the Co(II/III)tris(1,10-phenanthroline)-based redox electrolyte affords a short circuit photocurrent of 13.1 mA cm−2, an open circuit voltage of 861 mV, and a fill factor of 0.70, corresponding to an overall conversion efficiency of 7.89% under standard AM 1.5 sunlight. [Display omitted] 出版者： Elsevier Ltd 出版日期： 2013-12-09 出處： Tetrahedron, 2013-12, Vol.69 (49), p.10573-10580 版權： 2013 Elsevier Ltd 識別號： ISSN: 0040-4020 識別號： EISSN: 1464-5416 識別號： DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2013.10.041
