Modular Design Concept of Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell
WU Wen-Jun**
Key Labs for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Chemistry, Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology,Shanghai 200237, China
Abstract As the first pioneered molecular photovoltaics solar devices, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted widespread attention in the world due to their low-cost, tunability, and high photovoltaic performance. With the development of pure organic sensitizers for DSSCs, from D-π-A to D2-π-A and D-A-π-A configuration, a perfect modular design concept is formed gradually. Depending on this concept, a large number of organic sensitizers with high-photovoltaic performance have been designed and applied in DSSCs. Herein, in order to expand the professional curriculum area for undergraduate students majoring in chemistry with the frontier of molecular new energy, the modular design concept of sensitizers is systematized to meet the requirements of chemistry specialization while enhancing students’ learning interest and knowledge scope. The modular design concept is also expected to be applied in other field of molecular design, making it more maneuverable and efficient.
