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Simple dyes for sensitized solar cells based on hexahydrocyclopentaindole: influence of structure on the photophysical properties of cells

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Dyes of various structural complexity, based on the fragments of 4-(2-ethylhexyl)-1,2,3,3a,4,8b-hexahydrocyclopenta[b]indole and cyanoacrylic acid, were obtained. Solar cells sensitized with these dyes were developed, and their key photophysical characteristics were determined. The power conversion efficiency reached 4.64% for the most optimal devices based on a dye with an average structural complexity containing donor and acceptor fragments linked via a thiophene bridge. This value is comparable to the values obtained in the case of solar cells based on dyes of more complex structural types.

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This work was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Project No. 22-73-00102).

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  1. N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 47 Leninsky prosp., 119991, Moscow, Russian Federation

    M. S. Mikhailov, O. O. Ustimenko, N. S. Gudim, L. V. Mikhalchenko, E. A. Knyazeva & O. A. Rakitin

  2. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry, Build. 3, 1 Leninskie Gory, 111033, Moscow, Russian Federation

    O. O. Ustimenko

  3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, National Institute for Advanced Materials, Nankai University, 300350, Tianjin, China

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  4. State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, The Centre of Nanoscale Science and Technology and Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, College of Chemistry, Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Renewable Energy Conversion and Storage Center (RECAST), Nankai University, 300071, Tianjin, China

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Dedicated to Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences M. P. Egorov on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 131–140, January, 2024.

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Mikhailov, M.S., Ustimenko, O.O., Gudim, N.S. et al. Simple dyes for sensitized solar cells based on hexahydrocyclopentaindole: influence of structure on the photophysical properties of cells. Russ Chem Bull 73, 131–140 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-024-4124-y

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