A dye sensitized solar cell, wherein a compacting compound whose molecular structure comprises a terminal group, a hydrophobic part and an anchoring group is co-adsorbed together with the dye on the semi-conductive metal oxide layer of the photoanode, forming a dense mixed self-assembled monolayer.
Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kazuteru Nonomura, Gunther Wittstock