NOVEL ANCHORING LIGANDS FOR SENSITIZERS OF DYE-SENSITIZED PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES

摘要

The present invention relates to novel pyridine compounds that can be used as anchoring ligands in metal-based sensitizing dyes of dye sensitized solar cells (DSCs). The dyes comprising the polypyridine compounds exhibit improved light harvesting ability and lead to increased conversion efficiencies, in particular in thin TiO2 film devices.