Citation: Pan Bina, Zhu Yi-Zhou, Qiu Changjuana, Wang Binga, Zheng Jian-Yu. Synthesis of Phenothiazine Dyes Featuring Benzothiadiazole Unit for Efficient Dye-sensitized Solar Cells[J]. Acta Chimica Sinica, ;2018, 76(3): 215-223. doi: 10.6023/A17120543 shu

Synthesis of Phenothiazine Dyes Featuring Benzothiadiazole Unit for Efficient Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Pan Bina ^a,b ,
Zhu Yi-Zhou ^a,, ,
Qiu Changjuana ^a ,
Wang Binga ^a ,
Zheng Jian-Yu ^a,b,,

a.
State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
b.
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering(Tianjin), Tianjin 300071

Corresponding author: Zhu Yi-Zhou, zhuyizhou@nankai.edu.cn Zheng Jian-Yu, jyzheng@nankai.edu.cn
Received Date: 17 December 2017
Available Online: 22 March 2018
Fund Project: Tianjin Natural Science Foundation 16JCYBJC16700Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21572108) and Tianjin Natural Science Foundation (No. 16JCYBJC16700)the National Natural Science Foundation of China 21572108

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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), as an emerging solar energy conversion technology, have attracted increasing attention for their ease of fabrication, low production cost, wide variety of dye structure, and high power conversion efficiency (PCE). As the critical component of DSSCs, photosensitizers play an important role in photon capturing, charge generation and separation, as well as electron injection at the semiconductor interface. Efforts on the design and synthesis of photosensitizers are thus an effective and straightforward way to tune the photovoltaic performance. In this article, three novel phenothiazine-based D-A-π-A type organic dyes (JY50~JY52) featuring benzothiadiazole units as auxiliary acceptors have been synthesized and applied in DSSCs. The introduction of auxiliary acceptor would take the advantages of the optimization of the dyes' energy levels and light absorption. To get more impressive device efficiency, 4-hexylbenzene group was decorated onto phenothiazine donor and has proved to be effective for improving the molar absorption coefficient and suppressing the charge recombination, finally resulting in the enhancement of photocurrent (J_sc) and photovoltage (V_oc). In order to investigate the effect of different electron acceptor/anchoring group, benzoic acid and cyanoacrylic acid, which are widely applied in porphyrin-based dyes and metal-free organic dyes, respectively, are employed here to construct the target dyes. As we can see from the obtained photovoltaic performance data, dyes (JY50 and JY51) with benzoic acid anchor seem more beneficial to gain a higher V_oc, this may be ascribed to its nearly vertical adsorption geometry on the TiO₂ interface and the resulting decrease of the charge recombination. As for dye (JY52) with cyanoacrylic acid anchor, a better J_sc value is achieved because cyanoacrylic acid endows dye an extended conjugated system and an enhanced intramolecular charge transfer. Under AM 1.5 solar light conditions, the dye JY51 with 4-hexylbenzene unit and benzoic acid acceptor exhibited the highest PCE of 7.61%, with V_oc of 797 mV and J_sc of 14.21 mA·cm^-2.
- phenothiazine,
- benzothiadiazole,
- organic dye,
- dye-sensitized solar cell,
- power conversion efficiency
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