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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have gained great attention as lower-cost alternatives to conventional photovoltaic devices. One way to improve the excellent efficiencies (ca. 11%) exhibited by DSSCs based on ruthenium polypyridyl dyes would consist in using sensitizers with enhanced light-harvesting properties in the red region of the spectrum. Phthalocyanines (Pcs) are very robust molecules which present extraordinary high extinction coefficients in the 600- to 700-nm spectral region. Intensive research has been focused on reducing the undesired aggregation phenomena of Pcs on the metal oxide surface, while keeping a good electronic coupling between the LUMO of the Pcs and the TiO2 conduction band, and a good solubility of the dye in organic solvents. Recently, unsymmetrically substituted “push–pull” Pcs have emerged as efficient red-absorbing dyes, reaching power conversion efficiencies of up to 4.7%, when used as single sensitizers.
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Financial support by the MEC, Spain (CTQ2008-00418/BQU, CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 CDS 2007-00010, PLE2009-0070), and CAM (MADRISOLAR-2, S2009/PPQ/1533), is gratefully acknowledged. This work has been also supported by the EU projects SOLAR n-TYPE, MRTN CT-2006-035533 and ROBUST DSC, FP7-Energy-2007-1-RTD, No 212792. MI thanks the EU for a YR contract within the Marie Curie Project MRTN CT-2006-035533.
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Martínez-Díaz, M.V., Ince, M. & Torres, T. Phthalocyanines: colorful macroheterocyclic sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells. Monatsh Chem 142, 699–707 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00706-010-0431-0
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