Molecular engineering of cyanine dyes to design a panchromatic response in co-sensitized dye-sensitized solar cells
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Pepe, G
Cole, JM
Waddell, PG
McKechnie, S
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Cyanines are optically tunable dyes with high molar extinction coefficients, suitable for applications in co-sensitized dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs); yet, barely thus applied.
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3403 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry, 34 Chemical Sciences, 3406 Physical Chemistry
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Molecular Systems Design and Engineering
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2058-9689
2058-9689
2058-9689
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K503009/1)
G.P. thanks the EPSRC for a DTA Studentship (Reference: EP/K503009/1). J. M. C. is grateful to the 1851 Royal Commission for the 2014 Design Fellowship, and Argonne National Laboratory where work done was supported by DOE Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. The Bragg Institute at ANSTO is gratefully acknowledged for funding (for P.G.W.). S.M. is grateful to King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK, and the EPSRC (Grant No. EP/P505445/1) for Ph.D. funding. The authors thank the EPSRC UK National Service for Computational Chemistry Software (NSCCS) and acknowledge contributions from its staff in supporting this work.