Synthesis and Application of Two Organic Dyes Based on Indoline in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Authors

  • K. Gharanjig Center of Excellence for Color Science and Technology,Department of Organic Colorants, Institute for Color Science and Technology
  • M. Hosseinnezhad Center of Excellence for Color Science and Technology,Department of Organic Colorants, Institute for Color Science and Technology
  • S. Moradian Faculty of Polymer and Color Engineering,Amirkabir University of Technology, Center of Excellence for Color Science and Technology,Institute for Color Science and Technology
Abstract:

In this paper we sensitized two new organic days dye 1 and dye 2 based on thioindigo with phenothiazine as the electron donor group. We used acrylic acid and cyanoacrylic acid as the electron acceptor anchoring group in dye 1 and dye 2 respectively. The proposed dyes were sensitized from phenothiazine as the starting material by standard reactions and characterized by different techniques such as melting point, FTIR, 1HNMR, elemental analysis and UV-Visible spectroscopy after purification. Spectrophotometric measurements of the syntesised dyes in solution and on a TiO2 substrate were carried out in order to assess changes in the status of the dyes. The wavelength of maximum absorption for dye1 and dye 2 in solution are 499 nm and 505 nm and on TiO2 films are 523 nm and 527 nm, respectively. Finally, the proposed dyes used as sensitizer in a dye solar cell structure and their photovoltaic properties investigated. The Conversion efficiency for dye 1 and dye 2 are 2.34 and 3.07, respectively.

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Journal title

volume 8  issue 4

pages  309- 315

publication date 2015-11-01

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