Iron Redox Shuttles with Wide Optical Gap Dyes for High–Voltage Dye–Sensitized Solar Cells

Curiac, Christine; Rodrigues, Roberta R.; Watson, Jonathon; Hunt, Leigh Anna; Devdass, Anthony; Jurss, Jonah W.; Hammer, Nathan I.; Fortenberry, Ryan C.; Delcamp, Jared H.

doi:10.1002/cssc.202100884

Iron Redox Shuttles with Wide Optical Gap Dyes for High–Voltage Dye–Sensitized Solar Cells

Journal Article · Fri May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · ChemSusChem

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202100884· OSTI ID:1872895

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Univ. of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (United States); University of Mississippi
Univ. of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (United States)

A series of iron polypyridyl redox shuttles were synthesized in the 2+ and 3+ oxidation states and paired with a series of wide optical gap organic dyes with weak aryl ether electron donating groups. High voltage dye-sensitized solar cell (HV-DSC) devices were obtained through controlling the redox shuttle energetics and dye donor structure. Here, the use of aryl ether donor groups in place of commonly used aryl amines allowed for the lowering of the dye ground-state oxidation potential which enabled challenging to oxidize redox shuttles based on Fe²⁺ polypyridyl structures to be used in functional devices. By carefully designing a dye series that varies the number of alkyl chains for TiO₂ surface protection, the recombination of electrons in TiO₂ to the oxidized redox shuttle could be controlled— leading to HV-DSC devices of up to 1.4 V.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); NSF

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0019131

OSTI ID:: 1872895

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1812844
OSTI ID: 1852856

Journal Information:: ChemSusChem, Journal Name: ChemSusChem Journal Issue: 15 Vol. 14; ISSN 1864-5631

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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