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Contents Vol 67(3)

Layered γ-Zirconium Phosphate Intercalated with Ru(bpy)3-Viologen Dyads as Unusual Materials for Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells: Improving Efficiency by Double Sensitisation

María de Victoria-Rodriguez A , Pedro Atienzar B , Olga Juanes A , Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Ubis A , Ernesto Brunet A C and Hermenegildo García B C
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A Departamento de Química Orgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain.

B Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Química UPV-CSIC, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Av. de los Naranjos s/n, Valencia, Spain.

C Corresponding authors. Email: ernesto.brunet@uam.es; hgarcia@qim.upv.es

Australian Journal of Chemistry 67(3) 389-397 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH13451
Submitted: 11 September 2013  Accepted: 23 October 2013   Published: 25 November 2013

Abstract

The intercalation materials prepared from the laminar salt γ-zirconium phosphate and various dyads formed from Ru(bpy)3 and viologens were tested as photoactive components in dye-sensitised solar cells. The efficiencies significantly increased, up to 0.2 %, when the materials were treated with the panchromatic N535 dye. A mechanism for this double sensitisation process is proposed, which should enable further improvement of these γ-ZrP-based materials as a reasonable alternative to the usual Ti-based dye-sensitised solar cells.


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