Heteroleptic copper(I)–polypyridine complexes as efficient sensitizers for dye sensitized solar cells

Martina Sandroni; Ludovic Favereau; Aurelien Planchat; Huriye Akdas-Kilig; Nadine Szuwarski; Yann Pellegrin; Errol Blart; Hubert Le Bozec; Mohammed Boujtita; Fabrice Odobel

doi:10.1039/C4TA01755B

Heteroleptic copper(i)–polypyridine complexes as efficient sensitizers for dye sensitized solar cells†

Martina Sandroni,‡^a Ludovic Favereau,^a Aurelien Planchat,^a Huriye Akdas-Kilig,^b Nadine Szuwarski,^a Yann Pellegrin,^a Errol Blart,^a Hubert Le Bozec,^b Mohammed Boujtita*^a and Fabrice Odobel*^a

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^a UNAM, Université Nantes, Angers, Le Mans, CEISAM, Chimie Et Interdisciplinarité, Synthèse, Analyse, Modélisation CNRS, UMR CNRS 6230, 2, rue de la Houssinière - BP 92208, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France
E-mail: Fabrice.Odobel@univ-nantes.fr, Mohammed.Boujtita@univ-nantes.fr

^b UMR CNRS 6226-Université de Rennes 1, Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France

Abstract

The synthesis and the physico-chemical characterization of HETPHEN based heteroleptic copper(I)–bis(diimine) complexes are reported. For TiO₂ based dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs), the latter display impressive photoconversion efficiencies (PCEs), unprecedented for first row transition metal coordination complexes.

Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Heteroleptic copper(i)–polypyridine complexes as efficient sensitizers for dye sensitized solar cells†

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