Use of rylene derivatives as photosensitizers in solar cells

US8231809B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• BASF SE
• Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Föderung der Wissenschaften e.V. · US

Inventors

• Neil Gregory Pschirer · Mainz, DE
• Felix Eickemeyer · Heidelberg, DE
• Jan Schoeneboom · Mannheim, DE
• Jianqiang Qu · Shanghai, CN
• Martin Koenemann · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Klaus Muellen · Cologne, DE
• Chen Li · Santa Clara, US
• Andreas Herrmann · Stuttgart, DE
• Peter Erk · Bischofswerda, DE
• Gero Nordmann · Heidelberg, DE
• Alfred Kuhn · Schifferstadt, DE
• Anders Hagfeldt · Morges, CH
• Tomas Edvinsson · Uppsala, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 6, 2006
• Grant date: Jul 31, 2012
• Expiry date: Jun 9, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/549
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Rylene derivatives useful in solar cells, where the rylene derivatives are represented by formula I