Porphyrin-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs): a Review

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Porphyrins as light harvesters in the dye-sensitised TiO2 solar cell

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Review of Recent Progress in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

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Recent trends in mesoscopic solar cells based on molecular and nanopigment light harvesters

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An overview on the spectrum of sensitizers: The heart of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

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AM1 molecular screening of novel porphyrin analogues as dye-sensitized solar cells

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A new porphyrin bearing a pyridinylethynyl group as sensitizer for dye sensitized solar cells

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Efficient co-sensitization of dye-sensitized solar cells by novel porphyrin/triazine dye and tertiary aryl-amine organic dye

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Functionalized porphyrin derivatives for solar energy conversion

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The effects of macrocycle and anchoring group replacements on the performance of porphyrin based sensitizer: DFT and TD-DFT study

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Multi-alkylthienyl appended porphyrins for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells

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Stepwise co-sensitization as a useful tool for enhancement of power conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells: The case of an unsymmetrical porphyrin dyad and a metal-free organic dye

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Effects of π-linker, anchoring group and capped carbazole at meso-substituted zinc-porphyrins on conversion efficiency of DSSCs

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Novel zinc porphyrin with phenylenevinylene meso-substituents: Synthesis and application in dye-sensitized solar cells

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Porphyrin small molecules containing furan- and selenophene-substituted diketopyrrolopyrrole for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

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Novel zinc porphyrin sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells: Synthesis and spectral, electrochemical, and photovoltaic properties

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Porphyrins modified with a low-band-gap chromophore for dye-sensitized solar cells

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D–π–A system based on zinc porphyrin dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells: Combined experimental and DFT–TDDFT study

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New acceptor–π-porphyrin–π-acceptor systems for solution-processed small molecule organic solar cells

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Zn(II)-porphyrin dyes with several electron acceptor groups linked by vinyl-fluorene or vinyl-thiophene spacers for dye-sensitized solar cells

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Effect of thiourea incorporation in the electrolyte on the photovoltaic performance of the DSSC sensitized with pyridyl functionalized porphyrin

Sharma, G. D., Daphnomili, D., Angaridis, P. A., Biswas, S., & Coutsolelos, A. G. (2013) · Electrochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2013.04.003 · Cited by 29

Modulation of photovoltaic behavior of dye-sensitized solar cells by electron donors of porphyrin dyes and cosensitization

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Novel D–π–A structured porphyrin dyes containing various diarylamino moieties for dye-sensitized solar cells

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A key point of porphyrin structure affect DSSCs performance based on porphyrin sensitizers

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Dyed sensitized solar cells: A technically and economically alternative concept to p-n junction photovoltaic devices

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Theoretical study on a high-efficient porphyrin-sensitizer in a local electric field: How does the local electric field affects the performance of dye-sensitized solar cells?

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Synthesis and characterization of β-pyrrolic functionalized porphyrins as sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells

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Charge recombination losses in thiophene-substituted porphyrin dye-sensitized solar cells

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The role of terminal groups in electronic structures and related properties: The case of push–pull porphyrin dye sensitizers for solar cells

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Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Zinc Oxide Nanostructured Films Made with Amine Oligomers as Organic Templates and Gel Electrolytes

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Alkyl-thiophene Functionalized D-π-A Porphyrins for Mesoscopic Solar Cells

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Synthesis of π-A-porphyrins and their photoelectric performance for dye-sensitized solar cells

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Theoretical design and screening of alkyne bridged triphenyl zinc porphyrins as sensitizer candidates for dye-sensitized solar cells

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Synthesis and photophysical properties of donor–acceptor system based bipyridylporphyrins for dye-sensitized solar cells

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Synthesis, photo-electrochemical properties and dye-sensitized solar cell performance of d–π–A structured porphyrins

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