Title: A New Route to Enhance the Light‐Harvesting Capability of Ruthenium Complexes for Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells
Abstract: Advanced MaterialsVolume 19, Issue 22 p. 3888-3891 Communication A New Route to Enhance the Light-Harvesting Capability of Ruthenium Complexes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells† C.-Y. Chen, C.-Y. Chen Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan 32001 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this authorS.-J. Wu, S.-J. Wu Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan 32001 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this authorJ.-Y. Li, J.-Y. Li Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan 32001 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this authorC.-G. Wu, C.-G. Wu [email protected] Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan 32001 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this authorJ.-G. Chen, J.-G. Chen Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this authorK.-C. Ho, K.-C. Ho Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this author C.-Y. Chen, C.-Y. Chen Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan 32001 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this authorS.-J. Wu, S.-J. Wu Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan 32001 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this authorJ.-Y. Li, J.-Y. Li Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan 32001 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this authorC.-G. Wu, C.-G. Wu [email protected] Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan 32001 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this authorJ.-G. Chen, J.-G. Chen Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this authorK.-C. Ho, K.-C. Ho Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617 (Taiwan)Search for more papers by this author First published: 31 October 2007 https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.200701111Citations: 170 † This work was financially supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, under grant number NSC-95-2113-M-008-011-MY3. Supporting Information (detailed synthetic procedures and structure characterizations of the new ruthenium complexes, TiO2 electrode preparation, DSC device fabrication and performance tests, as well as device-related measurements) is available online from Wiley InterScience or from the authors. 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