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Porphyrin sensitizers play essential roles in the development of efficient dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). To further improve power conversion efficiency (PCE), it is vital to reduce undesirable dye aggregation that causes serious charge recombination and lowered open-circuit voltages ( V  oc ). To this end, we herein report a new class of porphyrin-based dyes XW40 and XW41 , with the porphyrin cores strapped with two circle chains. Compared with the reference sensitizer XW10 which contains a porphyrin core wrapped in four dodecoxyl chains, the double strapping in XW40 not only effectively suppresses the dye aggregation but also improves the dye loading amount. As a result, the V  oc and photocurrent ( J  sc ) were improved by 19 mV and 0.8 mA cm -2 , respectively, compared with the corresponding values of XW10 , and the efficiency was improved from 8.6% obtained for XW10 to 9.3% for XW40 . To further extend the spectral response, an electron-withdrawing benzothiadiazole (BTD) unit was introduced as an auxiliary acceptor in XW41 . Impressively, the onset wavelength of its IPCE spectrum was dramatically red-shifted to 830 nm. However, the extended π-conjugation framework results in aggravated dye aggregation, and thus a lowered efficiency of 8.2% was obtained for XW41 . Through a combined approach of coadsorption and cosensitization, the efficiencies were dramatically enhanced to 10.6% and 10.2% for XW40 and XW41 , respectively, as a result of simultaneously enhanced V  oc and J  sc . The results of this work provide a novel strategy for developing efficient DSSCs by employing strapped porphyrin dyes.

Efficient solar cells sensitized by a promising new type of porphyrin: dye-aggregation suppressed by double strapping