Synthesis of Zn(II) porphyrin dyes and revealing an influence of their alkyl substituents on performance of dye-sensitized solar cells

Artem V. Ezhov; Alexey E. Aleksandrov; Kseniya A. Zhdanova; Andrey P. Zhdanov; Ilya N. Klyukin; Konstantin Yu Zhizhin; Natal'ya A. Bragina; Andrey F. Mironov; Alexey R. Tameev

doi:10.1016/j.synthmet.2020.116567

Synthesis of Zn(II) porphyrin dyes and revealing an influence of their alkyl substituents on performance of dye-sensitized solar cells

Artem V. Ezhov, Alexey E. Aleksandrov, Kseniya A. Zhdanova, Andrey P. Zhdanov, Ilya N. Klyukin, Konstantin Yu Zhizhin, Natal'ya A. Bragina, Andrey F. Mironov, Alexey R. Tameev

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In this study, the series of A₃B-type zinc porphyrin dyes have been synthesized for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). All the received zinc-porphyrin complexes bear different alkyl substituents (none, tert-butyl-, methoxy-, hexyloxy-, dodecyloxy-, a pair of hexyloxy-), bulky electron-donating substituent (diphenylamino) in each of three meso-phenyl rings and carboxylic acid as acceptor/anchoring group. The influence of the number and length of alkyl chains on the photophysical properties and DSSCs photovoltaic performance was investigated, as well as quantum-chemical modeling was carried out. Our results reveal that the alkyl chains length and number affect cell performance. We found that DSSC power conversion efficiency increases with an increase in the length and number of alkyl substituents in the porphyrins. A maximum efficiency of 1.29 % was observed in solar cells with dodecyloxy-substituted zinc porphyrin.

Original language	English
Article number	116567
Journal	Synthetic Metals
Volume	269
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2020.116567
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Alkyl substituents
Density functional theory (DFT)
Dye-sensitized solar cell
Photovoltaics
Synthesis
Zn porphyrin

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Ezhov, A. V., Aleksandrov, A. E., Zhdanova, K. A., Zhdanov, A. P., Klyukin, I. N., Zhizhin, K. Y., Bragina, N. A., Mironov, A. F., & Tameev, A. R. (2020). Synthesis of Zn(II) porphyrin dyes and revealing an influence of their alkyl substituents on performance of dye-sensitized solar cells. Synthetic Metals, 269, Article 116567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2020.116567

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Synthesis of Zn(II) porphyrin dyes and revealing an influence of their alkyl substituents on performance of dye-sensitized solar cells

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