A new cosensitization method using the Lewis acid sites of a TiO2 photoelectrode for dye-sensitized solar cells

Naoyuki Shibayama; Hironobu Ozawa; Masahiro Abe; Yousuke Ooyama; Hironori Arakawa

doi:10.1039/C3CC49461F

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A new cosensitization method using the Lewis acid sites of a TiO₂ photoelectrode for dye-sensitized solar cells†

Naoyuki Shibayama,^ab Hironobu Ozawa,^a Masahiro Abe,^b Yousuke Ooyama^c and Hironori Arakawa*^a

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^a Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Ichigaya-Funagawara, Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-0826, Japan
E-mail: h.arakawa@ci.kagu.tus.ac.jp

^b Technical Research Institute, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Takanodaiminami, Sugito, Saitama 345-8508, Japan

^c Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

Abstract

Co-sensitized dye-sensitized solar cells using black dye and a pyridine-anchor dye (NI5 or YNI-2) showing site-selective adsorption behaviour at the TiO₂ surface have been prepared for the first time to reduce the competitive adsorption between the two dyes.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC49461F
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 13 Dec 2013
Accepted: 20 Mar 2014
First published: 09 May 2014

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Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 6398-6401

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A new cosensitization method using the Lewis acid sites of a TiO₂ photoelectrode for dye-sensitized solar cells

N. Shibayama, H. Ozawa, M. Abe, Y. Ooyama and H. Arakawa, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 6398 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC49461F

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