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Kevin Magra
NHC-Based Iron Sensitizers for DSSCs
International audience; Nanostructured dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are promising photovoltaic devices because of their low cost and transparency. Ruthenium polypyridine complexes have long been considered as lead sensitizers for DSSCs, allowing them to reach up to 11% conversion efficiency. However, ruthenium suffers from serious drawbacks potentially limiting its widespread applicability, mainly related to its potential toxicity and scarcity. This has motivated continuous research efforts to develop valuable alternatives from cheap earth-abundant metals, and among them, iron is particularly attractive. Making iron complexes applicable in DSSCs is highly challenging due to an ultrafa…
Photophysical Investigation of Iron(II) Complexes Bearing Bidentate Annulated Isomeric Pyridine-NHC Ligands
The possibility of achieving luminescent and photophysically active metal-organic compounds relies on the stabilization of charge transfer states and kinetically and thermodynamically blocking non-...