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Two indole-based bianchored metal free organic dyes (D1 and D2) organic dyes were designed and conveniently prepared for dye sensitized solar cells application. Indole moiety was utlised as the electron donor, conjugated system thiophene unit as the π-bridge, rodanine-3-acetic acid and cyanoacrylic acid groups as the electron acceptor. The maximum conversion rate of photovoltaic devices focused on D2, which achieved a conversion of 5.13 % under AM 1.5 illumination.
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The work was financially supported by Aviation Science Fund of China (No. 2013ZF56025) and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. 20142BAB213015).
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Qin, Y., Li, M., Yan, C. et al. Simple synthesis regarding novel bianchored metal free organic dyes based on indole for dye sensitized solar cells. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 27, 3974–3981 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-015-4251-1
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