Photoinduced electron injection from organic dye having pyridyl anchor to Lewis Acid site of TiO2 surface
Photoinduced electron injection from organic dye having pyridyl anchor to Lewis Acid site of TiO2 surface
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具有吡啶基锚定的有机染料光致电子注入 TiO2 表面的路易斯酸位点
DOI:
10.1039/c5ra12616a
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
and J. Ohshita
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作者:
Y. Harima;Y. Kano;T. Fujita;I. Imae;Y. Ooyama;and J. Ohshita
An organic dye with a pyridyl group as an anchor unit (NI4) adsorbs exclusively at the Lewis acid sites of TiO2 surface, although its adsorbability is very weak compared with that of a similar dye with a carboxyl group anchoring to Brønsted acid sites (NI2). In the present study, photovoltaic features of two similar dyes, NI2 and NI4, are thoroughly investigated by changing dye loadings on TiO2 surface and the intensity of the illuminated light. A remarkable finding is that photocurrents and photovoltages observed under intense illumination are larger for NI4 than for NI2, suggesting that the adsorbability of dye onto a TiO2 surface is not necessarily a principal factor leading to a high electron injection probability from dye to TiO2. Plausible reasons for the difference in photovoltaic features between NI2- and NI4-DSSCs are discussed on the basis of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and transient photovoltage measurements.