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Inside Cover: Molecular Engineering of Zinc Phthalocyanines with Phosphinic Acid Anchoring Groups (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 8/2012)

  1. Dr. Ismael López-Duarte1,†,
  2. Dr. Mingkui Wang2,3,†,
  3. Dr. Robin Humphry-Baker2,
  4. Mine Ince1,
  5. Dr. M. Victoria Martínez-Díaz1,
  6. Prof. Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin2,*,
  7. Prof. Tomás Torres1,*,
  8. Prof. Michael Grätzel2,*

Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201200228

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Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Volume 51, Issue 8, page 1732, February 20, 2012

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López-Duarte, I., Wang, M., Humphry-Baker, R., Ince, M., Martínez-Díaz, M. V., Nazeeruddin, M. K., Torres, T. and Grätzel, M. (2012), Inside Cover: Molecular Engineering of Zinc Phthalocyanines with Phosphinic Acid Anchoring Groups (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 8/2012). Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 51: 1732. doi: 10.1002/anie.201200228

Author Information

  1. 1

    Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid (Spain)

  2. 2

    Laboratory for Photonics and Interfaces, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)

  3. 3

    Michael Grätzel Center for Mesoscopic Solar Cells, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China)

  1. †

    These authors contributed equally to this work.

*Laboratory for Photonics and Interfaces, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 14 FEB 2012
  2. Article first published online: 20 JAN 2012

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Keywords:

  • dyes/pigments;
  • light harvesting;
  • phthalocyanines;
  • sensitizers;
  • solar cells
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Zinc phthalocyanine sensitizers that contain phosphinic acid anchoring groups have an overall conversion efficiency of 3.24 % under 1 sun in a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). M. K. Nazeeruddin, T. Torres, M. Grätzel, and co-workers demonstrate in their Communication on page 1895 ff. that the phosphinic acid groups provide a stronger binding affinity relative to carboxylic acid anchoring groups, which improves the durability of DSSCs.

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