Combining Electron‐Accepting Phthalocyanines and Nanorod‐like CuO Electrodes for p‐Type Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

A route is reported for the synthesis of two electron-accepting phthalocyanines featuring linkers with different lengths as sensitizers for p-type dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Importantly, our devices based on novel nanorod-like CuO photocathodes showed high efficiencies of up to 0.191 %: the highest value reported to date for CuO-based DSSCs.